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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

Topics

Tradition Characterization General

Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.

Life Death Reputation Restaurant You

When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.

Work Me Year Out Driver Work Out

We're going to have to work. We're going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Work Play Nothing Will Going Well

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

People Brain Think Interested Most

I like taking different elements - clothes, shoes, lighting - and creating a total transformation. But it's never about hiding: it's about drawing something out from deep inside of me that's really true. I'm always trying really hard to tell you the truth. That's what this is all about for me.

Truth Shoes Me Transformation Deep

While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun.

Positive Work Smile Good Walk Day

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

Music People Deep Feel You Emotions

I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Performance Song Think Better Magic

I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Jonathan Glazer

Words Better Always Audience Through

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

Life Sexy Person Real Real Life

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

Women Beautiful Think Know Who

Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Life Good Mother God Time Young

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