Anais Nin Quotes

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

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• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Name

• Core competence is communication, involvement, and a deep commitment to working across organizational boundaries.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Deep
  • Commitment
  • Communication

• Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit

  

  Ovid

• A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dance
  • Charity

• Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Eyes
  • Gym

• the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize (cont)

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Death

• The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

  

  Aeschylus

• I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Money

• It really, truly is sad when it's over, man. To not have that regularness, that familiarity. I love working in television because of that. It's like going to see your family every day.

  

  Drea De Matteo
  • Family
  • Sad

• He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Eye
  • Body
  • Silence

• I've been a big Chapstick fan since I was a kid. I love lathering it on. I probably use a bit more Chapstick than necessary.

  

  Alex Morgan

• Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Proud

• Some people are diplomatic, some people are outspoken, but the next generation is very clear. People are speaking their mind out. People are worried about other things besides their own careers. It's not accurate to say that they don't speak out.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • People
  • Mind

• Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

  

  Anais Nin