Marcel Proust Quotes

Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

Marcel Proust

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• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Everybody
  • Somebody
  • Anybody

• As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Born

• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Children
  • Book
  • Friends

• I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Way
  • Person
  • Feel

• There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Think
  • Friendships

• To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Tree

• I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Most

• I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Pain
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

  

  Ed Koch
  • City
  • Water
  • New York

• I do love gymnastics, but it's such an intense sport and you have to be so committed. It's such a commitment that it's really hard to do anything else other than gymnastics as people progress.

  

  AnnaSophia Robb
  • People
  • Progress
  • Commitment

• Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Heart
  • Dark

• I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Work
  • Powerful

• Beware of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity inforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things, than one.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Rest

• about an incident in a coffee shop

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Coffee

• People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Love
  • Capable

• Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

  

  Marcel Proust