Albert Brooks Quotes

If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1947

Topics

SucceedBoatYouPersonWantWill

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

John Dewey

HistoryManSurrenderIntellectual

I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfalls that I've gone through then I'm happy to help.

Mayer Hawthorne

WomenHappySomeoneHelpI CanGone

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

Matthew Perry

WomenProblemWantNeverFixOut

I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.

Stanley Druckenmiller

WatchingEggsBasketLikeVeryThen

The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

Sloane Crosley

BirthdayQueenI AmThinkCalendar

Maybe it's stupidity, but you just gotta jump into things. That's how I've gone through life.

Troy Nixey

LifeStupidityYouJumpThingsGone

You've got to catch the ball.

Rob Gronkowski

YouBallCatchGot

If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.

Michael Nielsen

KnowledgeSciencePotentialReward

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Louise Brown

PeopleMeInfluenceReadingResult

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Lord Mountbatten

KnowledgePersonFloatingSlowlyHad

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

Lorenzo Lamas

InevitableNothingRelationships

I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold. I'm as insecure as the next person, but it doesn't ever take me over.

Lisa Rinna

I AmMeSucceedPersonWantOver

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