Alain de Botton Quotes

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkBusinessPeopleToolsRemember

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Maximillian Degenerez

LifeHeartMindPossibilitiesWild

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Anita Diament

BookStoryNeverClassicOverMonth

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Stendhal

StyleNowWillFortyYearsNobility

When you're young, you think your parents are embarrassing and always saying and doing the wrong things, but as you get older you really appreciate how right they were about so much.

Tom Daley

ParentsSayingThinkAppreciateYou

We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.

Robin Zander

GoodThinkDistanceKeepWorking

Florida is very difficult to have name ID... That's why statewide incumbents usually get reelected in Florida.

Ron DeSantis

NameWhyDifficultFloridaGetID

We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.

Loretta Lynch

ChildrenSocietyCountryWantKind

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Jonathan Maberry

SciencePoliticsEthicsActionHuman

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Brian Eno

GreatThoughtMagicPlayRunYears

My comfort zone is in a kitchen.

Antoni Porowski

KitchenComfort ZoneComfortZone

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

Ava DuVernay

JobMeStartThinkingLovingOut

I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.

Sebastian Coe

GoodMotherTimeMeInfluenceCoach

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