Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.
-
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
-
We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
-
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
-
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
-
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
-
One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
-
I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
-
I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
-
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
-
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
-
I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
-
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
-
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
-
I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
-
The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.
-
I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.
-
I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
-
I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.
-
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
-
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
-
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.
-
But that which is useful is the better.
