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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Topics

Money Bad Vanity Flattery Kind Us

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

You Know Ahead Will Move Get

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

Death Waiting Someone Company Him

The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Future Challenge Day People Problem

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Teachers Never Wonderful State Drill

I'm not a partisan.

Douglas Brinkley

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Police Create Catch Who Gangsters

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

Sad Water Beer Spring Drink Reveal

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.

Environmental Driving Poverty Risk

I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.

Feel Feeling Go Kind Why Way

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Richard Flanagan

World End Island Grandparents Mining

One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself.

Love Time Yourself Someone Long You

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.

Me Eating Never Banana Interrupt

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