Anton Chekhov Quotes

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.

Anton Chekhov

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Well

• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Everyday

• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business

• You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Feel
  • Confident

• The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Said
  • Pressure
  • Outside

• In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must adopt policies that support functional capital markets without imposing undue restrictions on providers of debt and equity capital.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• I don't believe in God.

  

  Gail Porter
  • God
  • Believe

• I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Work
  • New
  • Head

• I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Power
  • Law

• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Kind
  • Leaving
  • Personal

• In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there's this one Thai restaurant, and it's right next to the 'Great American Hall'. I'm there all the time whenever I'm in town; that's my spot.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• People are flying you places in business class. Everyone wants to take pictures of you and find out information about you. It's a freak-out. But the more you push boundaries, the more you get ahead.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Business
  • Flying

• As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • Spanish

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People
  • Winter
  • Warrior

• There was just so much attention that got focused on my story, and what that created was an opportunity for me to share what were the tools, what were the strategies, what was the thinking that had me break though those boundaries.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Attention

• Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Animals
  • Stones
  • Plants

• Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

  

  Wilfred Burchett
  • Feel
  • National
  • Inferiors

• I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

  

  Julia Garner
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Liar

• It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.

  

  Anton Chekhov