Octavio Paz Quotes

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

CharacterThinkingRealityHypocrisy

I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.

Jennifer Coolidge

LifeThinkYouGoWayGoing

When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

Jeffrey Zeldman

WorkDieYouNobodyCompanyHosting

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

John Walsh

ChildrenDayHellAbsentReasons

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

John Stuart Mill

PainPreventionPromotionPleasure

Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.

Steve King

SonWarPeopleYouFlagAncestors

I've tried to rap, and I cannot do it.

Stephen Malkmus

RapCannotTried

I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.

Steve Nash

TeamThinkYouForgetFocusedGet

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

Tony Buzan

LearningCreativityMemoryMindWay

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Tony Judt

ResponsibilityPastI AmMeFeel

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

Rolf Harris

GoodAgeArtBestSchoolEarly

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Confucius

ChangeSunMoonLooksPersonUp

Most producers who want you to dance are not looking at the long term. They see their evenings, the box office, whom they have to repay, whatever.

Sylvie Guillem

DanceLookingLongYouWantOffice

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