Anton Chekhov Quotes

People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

Anton Chekhov

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• I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Unique

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creative

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• For my life, I need to make my own choices.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Choices
  • My Life

• Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growing
  • Opportunities

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Like

• Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Change
  • Eyes

• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Like
  • Being

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Seldom

• I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Everything
  • Give

• I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• I've got a grocery bill at the end of every month.Our toothpaste, our orange juice, that all gets paid. But I - it is true that I don't carry my wallet that often.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Months
  • Juice

• Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Different
  • Money

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Survival

• See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Want
  • Reality

• People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People