Blaise Pascal Quotes
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Quotes to Explore
-
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
-
I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
-
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
-
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
-
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
-
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
-
I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
-
I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
-
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
-
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
-
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
-
Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
-
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
-
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
-
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
-
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
-
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
-
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
-
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
-
Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous, and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast.
-
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'
-
When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
-
In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.
-
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
