Blaise Pascal Quotes

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • God
  • Fight
  • Strength

• There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Up
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• We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Real
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• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Day

• I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Black
  • Simple

• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Favourite

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Excites

• If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Pretty
  • Story
  • Look

• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Company

• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

  

  George Eliot
  • Distance
  • Human Beings
  • Inventor

• More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Power
  • Capability
  • Soviet Union

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Great
  • Money

• All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Young
  • Businesses
  • Customer

• I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Judge
  • Distance
  • Painters