Alain de Botton Quotes

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

IdeasFindPlacePiecesComputer

One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MovingWritingWeekRomeDiary

Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share.

Andy Garcia

PeopleDreamWantEmbarrassedShare

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

John Cullum

FinanceWarServingMasterDegree

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

Stella Adler

TimeSpiritualTheatreSocialX-Ray

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Sufjan Stevens

FaithGovernmentMoralsWealthLaws

To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying!

Skrillex

MusicJoyMeDoingYouCreate

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

Mary Gaitskill

YouDownListenTurnWhateverTell

I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.

Marv Levy

FootballToughYouBackNowSay

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

Mick Jones

WritingProcessMysteriousTryToo

I'm not a fan of underdressing, I think it's better to be overdressed than underdressed.

Christian Siriano

ThinkBetterFanThanI Think

People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.

Brian Chesky

LiveShoesTrustCultureMoneyWant

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

Pauline Neville-Jones

AttitudeThinkThoughtDoingYou

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