Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

Alfred North Whitehead

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• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • You
  • Difference

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Great
  • Win
  • Three

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Habit

• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • More
  • Watching
  • Too Much

• If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Think
  • Language

• You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Success
  • Wisdom

• I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Know
  • Fans
  • Difference

• A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Would

• The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Theory

• The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.

  

  Karyn White
  • Success
  • Wisdom
  • Lessons

• Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.

  

  Andrew Hoberek
  • Work
  • Success
  • Talent

• I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Weird

• Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Kindness

• Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Desire