Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1966

Topics

ManThoughtsJumpBiteLikeFleas

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats

GreatMeSpeakYouDifferenceTask

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

John Hench

ColorsFeelingParkBigWhereLike

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Jean Paul

ParadiseOutCannotOnlyWhich

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Tommy Mottola

GoodCreativityEndYouArtistKnow

The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

Robin S. Sharma

GrowthYouProjectScaredGreatest

We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.

Juan Manuel Santos

DemocracyWorldProblemsPoverty

A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

Judge Reinhold

ClothesStopTroubleRelationships

I didn't understand when somebody thanked me for writing a good sketch, because it was something I wanted to do, but now I totally get it, because when someone writes something great for me, I'm so appreciative.

Colin Jost

GoodGreatMeWritingSomeoneNow

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

Anthony Bourdain

BeingVeganPhenomenonSelf-Indulgent

I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

Alicia Coppola

JobSayDamnActorLuckyAlways

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

PowerYouSinSayMiserableWeak

Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

Mark Zuckerberg

GreatHappyPeopleChallengesWorld

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