Gerald Brenan Quotes

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan

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• If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • You
  • Meet
  • Standards

• This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

  

  Weegee
  • Film
  • Nothing
  • Village

• While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Great
  • Power
  • Taken

• I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Mistakes

• Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.

  

  Iris Chang
  • American
  • Chinese
  • Medicine

• Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Community
  • Space

• The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.

  

  R. T. Kendall
  • Personality

• Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Heart
  • Together

• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Care
  • Criticism

• A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

  

  Plato
  • Laughter
  • Reaction
  • Excess

• A good man never dies.

  

  Callimachus
  • Man
  • Dies

• Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Bigger
  • Memorable
  • Mouths

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

  

  James Hilton
  • Believe
  • Avoid
  • Govern

• There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • World
  • Effort
  • Talent

• Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

  

  Gerald Brenan
  • Avoid
  • Oneself
  • Bore