Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
-
I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
-
I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
-
When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
-
Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
-
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
-
I never forbid myself anything.
-
The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
-
I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.
-
Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
-
You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
-
Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.
-
As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
-
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
-
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
-
My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
-
I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
-
We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.
-
Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.
-
I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
-
What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
-
Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you're a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.
-
For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.
-
O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
