Alain de Botton Quotes

There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1969

Topics

JealousyPeopleChaosOpportunities

Trust 'The Process.'

Joel Embiid

TrustProcess

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

Joel Osteen

LifeTogetherFunFriendsParty

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

Amy Smart

GiftThinkBecomeCelebrityStar

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Sparky Anderson

WorkGivingDownSittingWatching

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

Rosie Perez

GoodProgressUglyPeopleLookBad

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

Jason Alexander

AgeSadFirstBeingStartedAfter

There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.

Jared Padalecki

LoveFunHave FunThinkCareerKind

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Doc Watson

MusicMeaningPlayMoodWhatever

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Dennis Lehane

WordsBelieveLanguageYouI Believe

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Dean Kamen

WorkChangeLiveInnovationSociety

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

Brian Dennehy

GoodFootballLookingEnoughRules

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

Chuck Berry

HopeWillAlwaysGoneMineSongs

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