Marcel Proust Quotes
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
Abdoulaye Wade
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard
I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
Magdi Yacoub
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
Warwick Davis
Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
Karl Marx
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley
I miss journalism an awful lot.
Kevin Barry
Imagination comes of not having things.
LeRoy Neiman
If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.'
Elif Safak
The classic story of the Univision network is the mainstream pretends that the network doesn't exist, but then when it comes to sweeps or the ratings, they just have millions and millions more viewers than ABC, Fox, and CBS combined; it's that kind of a success story.
Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
David Deutsch
I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.
Shinichi Suzuki
The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.
Mike Harding
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.
Marcel Proust
