Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Mistake

• I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Death

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Hate
  • Mean

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

  

  Ian Smith
  • You
  • Question
  • Risk

• There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Live
  • Family

• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Human
  • View

• Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,- in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Rest
  • Trust

• The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Happy

• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  

  Plutarch
  • Way
  • Measure
  • Misfortune

• From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

  

  Arnold Gehlen
  • Art
  • Development
  • Consistency

• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • God
  • Art

• Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Writing
  • Art
  • May