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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Topics

Life Soul Purpose Lost Nowhere

Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.

Future Politics Me Left Interested

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

Family Me Think Interesting Now

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

Life Wish Professional More I Wish

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Think Feel Anxiety Nation Sense

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Anna Deavere Smith

Acting Very Lot Techniques

I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.

Work Bike Lunch Parking Break Bring

What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Wisdom Money People Think You Look

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.

Imagination Me Inspire Think Back

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

Thinking Better Bigger Big Just

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

Good Competition People Me Better

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

Great Time Myself Happy Be Happy

I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.

Think Better Lucky Sing Just Songs

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