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

• There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• 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

• Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Faith
  • Humanity
  • Forces

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

  

  Plato
  • Laughter
  • Reaction
  • Excess

• Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not necessarily people, it's the essence of the time period, whether it be the '90s or the '70s or the '40s. The specific time and what vibe it gave you, what the emotion of that time was, and trying to get that emotion again.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Israel
  • Peace process
  • Arab World

• Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Page

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

  

  Gerald Brenan
  • Avoid
  • Oneself
  • Bore