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Henri Bergson Quotes

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: October 18, 1859 - January 4, 1941

Topics

Life Division Association Elements

When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

Son Day Me Down Born Little

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Jesse Kellerman

Father Cold Remember First Mark

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You've got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Community Sports Support Team Win

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

Maturity Teach Outside Tribe Means

President Barack Obama talks about the need to 'invest' in alternative energy sources. But the reality is that he is not investing his money - he's spending yours.

Money Energy Reality President Need

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

Marvin Hamlisch

Music Writing Always Broadway Berlin

I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn't bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white.

Vision Great White Edge Lights Knew

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

Me Control Someone Artist Want Over

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

Life People Out Us Dependent How

'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

School Golf Wall Pictures Swing Old

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Clifford Geertz

Science History Literature Gender

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

Heart Trust Everything Gut Head

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