Alfred Adler Quotes

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler

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• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
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  • Revenge

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• Panic is a horrible thing.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Thing
  • Horrible
  • Panic

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Day
  • Problems

• There is inspiration all around us.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Inspiration

• I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Great
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• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Way
  • Prayer

• Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Different
  • Crystal
  • Fraction

• I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Community
  • Worry
  • Blessing

• I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.

  

  Philippe Perrin
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Science

• You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

  

  Maurice Ravel
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• As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

  

  Alexander McQueen
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  • Designer

• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  

  Alfred Adler
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