Aristotle Quotes

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Aristotle

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• Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Because

• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Free
  • Freedom

• When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Knows
  • New

• Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Harmony

• The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Being

• I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Help
  • Color

• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Die
  • Wrong
  • Prove

• Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Remember
  • War

• The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Fear
  • Hate

• Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Experience
  • Progress

• Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Effort

• I don't care if I don't act anymore.

  

  Mel Gibson

• I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.

  

  Dean Martin
  • Kids
  • House
  • Words

• I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • World
  • Criticism

• People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • May
  • Business

• Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Competition

• Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Criticism
  • Avoid
  • Easily