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Lionel Trilling Quotes

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

Lionel Trilling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1905 - November 5, 1975

Topics

Great Ideas Thinking Vice Rather

My dad, who I'm very close to, is one of those men where once you're in, once he loves you, that's it, no questions about it.

Men Questions You Where Who He

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

Life Work Best I Am Me Challenges

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.

People Bond Think Run Never System

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

Hope Man Christian Now More Give

In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.

Work Experience Walk Together People

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Politics World Rest Thrive Humanity

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

Good Father Mother Mathematics Kind

Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um - terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth.

Time Parenting Wife Balance Baby

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

Yourself Think You Person Want Must

Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.

Cool Internet Creating Sharing Stuff

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Day Think CEO I Think Dropped Stock

I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down.

I Am Fun Me Have Fun Someone Down

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