Albert Camus Quotes

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Albert Camus

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• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nature

• Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Economy

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • End
  • Actor

• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Irritating

• I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Like

• Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • American

• My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Growth
  • India

• If I had any humility I would be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Would

• I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Discipline

• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • You
  • Being
  • Anxiety

• I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Parents
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Past
  • Growth
  • Revolution

• Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Hell
  • Beats

• Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Love
  • True
  • Space

• Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

  

  Plato
  • Children
  • Force
  • Ways

• There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

  

  Al Koran
  • Thinking
  • Seeking
  • Lack

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Things
  • Suffice
  • Graciousness