Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

Alfred North Whitehead

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• If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Vote
  • Fishing
  • Fish

• I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Better

• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Research

• I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • She
  • Funny
  • Woman

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Truth

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Love
  • Best
  • Sweet

• For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Characters
  • Humane

• I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Pen

• Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Best
  • Self
  • Performance

• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Present

• I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Time
  • Character
  • Player

• How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this — for this — I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sad
  • Young

• I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Taken

• I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Remember
  • Police
  • Scary

• The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.

  

  Arch Ward
  • Book
  • Hope
  • Fear

• The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead