Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
  • Intelligently

• A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Law
  • Just
  • Top

• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Always
  • Same
  • News

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Young
  • Will
  • Anything

• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Perfect
  • Purpose
  • Film

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence
  • Early

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• What is a farm but a mute gospel?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gospel
  • Farm
  • Mute

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• There's room for role models who make mistakes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mistakes
  • Room
  • Role Models

• I see myself as extremely lucky.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Myself
  • See
  • Lucky

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

  

  Christopher Gadsden
  • People
  • Faith

• At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • America
  • Fashion

• I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Power
  • Running

• You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.

  

  James Redfield
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

  

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Forever

• Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Past
  • Fashion
  • Students