Alain de Botton Quotes

When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FatherChildSomeoneSeeI SeeUp

If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.

Jimmy Fallon

PeopleInternetYouFindWantSee

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

Michael Connelly

WorkDarknessThoughtYouLookLine

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

John Schnatter

StartNegativeNever ForgetYouStay

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

GreatLightArchitectureDetailSoft

I'm on the rise and whatnot, but I'm not the man to say, 'All right, world, here's grime.' It's gonna take me, Skepta, JME, Novelist and Lethal Bizzle, to say, 'I'm sick, he's sick, he's sick, he's sick'. Not one man can do it.

Stormzy

ManMeWorldSickRiseSay

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Socrates

LifeGodSoulEndWillHim

I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning to write for 'Letterman' or '70s-era Carson.

Steve Rushin

SportsJobGrowing UpWritingDream

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Loretta Devine

LifeYouLessonPersonTrueFact

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Douglas Coupland

FutureThinkThreeSayRightPoint

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Cicely Tyson

YourselfChallengesYouNeverThings

Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.

Scott Weiss

SuccessGoodCultureStrategyHiring

People don't remember my work in my earlier films, as 'PKP' has been etched forever in their minds. So, I get similar kind of roles.

Nushrat Bharucha

WorkPeopleRememberKindMindsGet

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