Fernando Pessoa Quotes

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Born

• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Why
  • Science
  • Political

• The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • You
  • Wear
  • Wearing

• When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • Long
  • Family

• Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Win
  • Gold
  • Fans

• At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Help
  • Career
  • Mean

• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Really
  • Italian
  • Early

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic

• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Words
  • Advice

• Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Photograph
  • Well
  • Paintings

• Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Human

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

  

  Christian Lous Lange
  • Thinking
  • Organization

• The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Time
  • Long
  • Crazy

• I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success