Arthur Helps Quotes

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

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• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Real
  • Action
  • Value

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Never
  • Model
  • Thing

• It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Better
  • Look
  • Customers

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Change

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Great
  • Humor
  • Integrity

• To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reading

• 'Wake me when what terrible thing is going to happen, happens, or if it appears I might get wet.'

  

  Garth Nix

• 101 Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Failure

• It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • World

• Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • Work
  • Different
  • Peace

• I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Mistake

• It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

  

  May-Britt Moser
  • Important
  • Children
  • Curiosity

• I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

  

  Alicia Machado
  • Music

• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  

  Gary McCord
  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

  

  Chris Bosh
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Taught

• I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

  

  Brad Feld
  • People
  • Business
  • Bad

• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Knowledge
  • Order
  • Confusion

• Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Fall
  • Wise
  • Ground