Albert Einstein Quotes

Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Good
  • Done
  • Power

• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Star

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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  • Business
  • American

• An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Brain
  • Learn

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Country
  • Interesting

• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• Lesbians love whale watching! They fuckin love it! THEY LOVE IT MORE THAN PUSSY! It's any sea mammal really. Whales, manatees, dolphins. They go crazy for the dolphins. I don't know what it is- I think it's the blowhole.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Crazy
  • Sea

• Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Mistake
  • Service
  • Honesty

• Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Question
  • Challenge

• TheyAustralians've all kinds of accents, but you can never mistake their voice. It's got the sun in it. Canadians have got grinding ice in theirs, and Virginians have got butter. So have the Irish. In Britain there are no voices, only speaking-tubes.

  

  John Buchan
  • Mistake
  • Sun
  • Irish

• Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Question
  • Mistake
  • Safe