Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Alfred North Whitehead

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• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
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• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• 'Mahershala' is my nickname.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
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• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
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• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Know

• I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Land
  • Village
  • Ruthless

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Working Hard

• I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Judge

• Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Secret
  • Cat
  • Self

• Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Learning

• Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Integrity

• If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

  

  Brad Anderson

• There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Understanding

• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Experience