Aristotle Quotes

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Aristotle

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• Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Everyone
  • Apple
  • Mobile

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Guy
  • Ideas
  • Hair

• 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Small
  • Born

• I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Opportunities
  • Exploring

• Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Important
  • Kids
  • I Think

• My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Lived
  • Egypt

• I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Men
  • Girl

• The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it - and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Fear
  • Study

• There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Powerful
  • Worry

• Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan

• Our ills are worse than at their easeThese blameless happy souls suspect,They only study the disease,Alas, who live not to detect.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Study

• I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

  

  Tyrese Gibson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Military

• It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool. . . Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Life
  • Pool
  • Stone

• The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they contribute to sustainable political outcomes consistent with vital interests that are at stake in that war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• In spite of all the obstacles that Teilhard perhaps wisely puts in our way, it is possible to discern a train of thought in The Phenomenon of Man.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • Obstacles

• The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Excellence