Alain de Botton Quotes

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeCareTake CarePrioritiesYou

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

Roger Ebert

FilmTerribleWasteThing

I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you.

Mary H.K. Choi

RespectPeopleBookYouWillWrite

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

Jason Fried

ForwardThinkResultsNewPossible

In the normal world, the residents of Scream Street would not be welcome - they would be seen as freaks and ghouls, so it wouldn't be OK for them to be there. Scream Street is a haven for them; it's their own little place where they can be safe.

Debra Stephenson

WelcomeWorldPlaceStreetSafeOwn

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.

Dean Martin

WordsGoodbyeYouHouseThreeHello

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Bono

MusicTimeWordsPeopleThinkKnow

My life is cinematic in some ways.

Arjun Kapoor

LifeMy LifeSomeWaysCinematic

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Anne Bancroft

LifeBestDeathMeRewardParadise

I got told by pretty much everyone I knew that, if I'm going to be out in L.A., working, you need a car. So I was thinking, I'm going to try and not get a car, just because I'm a contrarian that way.

Alfred Enoch

CarThinkingYouJust BecauseWay

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

Phyllis Battelle

LifeHeartBrokenSayingFatYou

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

Phil Collins

DayBetterMake A DifferenceKnow

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

Susana Martinez

ImmigrationAdvocateReform

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