Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 1, 1881 - April 10, 1955

Topics

WorkIntelligenceManMindAction

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

Joan Collins

HealthThinkImportantI ThinkThing

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

Andrae Crouch

JobPeopleSingingThinkBetter

Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.

Andie MacDowell

TimeChildBetterWorryYouPerfect

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

FailureCourageManIdeasBetter

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

John W. Snow

YearDownWhereCommittedKnowsOur

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

Summer Altice

PlayInsideReasonGotVolleyball

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Toni Morrison

PowerTrustThinkYouDreamLittle

I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

Ronnie Dunn

TechnologyPastPeopleMeThinkYou

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

Montel Williams

MotivationalLifeMyselfMountain

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Lou Holtz

GoodWinYouLoseBadSay

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Joy Williams

TodayLanguagePlaceSayNothing

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Josh McDermitt

FindPersonWhoHilariousChad

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