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Alexis Carrel Quotes

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: french
Birth: June 28, 1873 - November 5, 1944

Topics

Life Best Personality Human Hard

Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind.

Work Gratitude Myself Culture Legacy

I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.

Man Adventure Angry Start Young Out

The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.

Fear Brand Magic Need Safe Rule

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

Think Too Much More Anything Rather

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

Melissa Rosenberg

Great Money Voice Story Thinking

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Anna Deavere Smith

Identity Constellations Assemblage

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

Family Love Wife Mom Look Know

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Robert Baldwin Ross

Name Attention Conversation Never

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

Baseball Game Chance Thinking Better

When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.

Family School Better Early Table

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Future Mind Miserable Anxious About

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Douglas Coupland

Family Book End Out Within Up

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