Socrates Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

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WisdomPoetryYouFindKindKnowing

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Jim Ryun

StrongHeritageKansasAgricultural

My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

John Romaniello

BeautifulWalkPushTryingTrain

I can look back now and say, 'Aw, that was a little dumb taking huge bumps onto concrete before a couple of hundred fans,' but if it wasn't for that attitude and that type of work ethic, I never would have gotten to WWE.

Mick Foley

EasyNo RegretsRegretsShouldTaken

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

Julia Roberts

GoodMeSteelNowPrettyPainter

Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don't access day to day. In my day-to-day physicality, I'm a little bit like a terrier. I've always been described as a dog. I'm kind of goofy and a little dopey looking sometimes.

Jordan Gavaris

DogDayYourselfAnimalLookingYou

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Donald Knuth

ScienceArtPeopleThinkReality

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Claude Debussy

FeelingNakedFleshMuchHowBefore

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

Alia Shawkat

GoodAmazingThinkBetterNowGuy

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Shelby Lynne

SadWomanI AmParentsPeopleThink

I don't like the intellectual label.

Noam Chomsky

IntellectualLikeLabel

I used to be under the impression that if a role wasn't difficult, then there was nothing happening. Then a director said to me: 'Ken, you've got to realise, acting can be fun, too.'

Ken Stott

FunMeYouActingSaidNothing

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

Kevin Young

MeFeelChooseEvolveComeJust

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