W. H. Auden Quotes

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

Topics

LifeManActionIgnoreAttention

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

John Cameron

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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

John Lydon

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Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

Robert Shapiro

StrategyProveCriminalOnlyAttempt

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.

Robert Fitzgerald

MyselfMeLanguageLiteratureWay

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Robert Anton Wilson

SureOnlyAbsolutelyMadman

As an undergraduate at Columbia, I went to the engineering school. I had a great deal of training in engineering and mathematics as well as subdiversified training. And then I went to the California Institute of Technology to do my Ph.D. in applied math.

Robert C. Merton

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I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

Robert Wilson

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'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.

Mike Gallagher

PeopleTryingCryUpTortureWho

What do you want to be? If you don't put the work in, you're not going to be able to be it.

Mo Farah

WorkYouWantGoingAblePut

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.

Mo Ibrahim

MoneyPeopleInternetYouVillage

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

Chris Pine

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I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

CM Punk

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