Aristotle Quotes

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• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • You
  • Anything

• There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Home

• My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kids

• I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Why
  • You
  • Speak

• This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War
  • Struggle

• Men often become nonviolent in societies that (1) have adequate amounts of food, (2) have adequate amounts of water, and (3) perceive themselves as isolated from attack. For example, the Tahitian men, the Minoan men on Crete, and the Central Malaysian Semai were nonviolent during the period in their history when all three of these conditions prevailed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • History
  • Food

• P. 27.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• He who offends others, does not secure himself.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Thoughts

• It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Important

• The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Chinese

• It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Long
  • Women
  • Remember

• When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Guy

• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.

  

  Khalid
  • Nice
  • Rude

• I don't think I should be underestimated.

  

  Lindsay Davenport

• God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • God
  • Stress
  • Handle

• Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Act
  • Crush

• I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Story

• It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Do

• I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Proud
  • Do

• You are what you do repeatedly.

  

  Aristotle
  • Do
  • Repeatedly