Karen Blixen Quotes

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Karen Blixen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: April 17, 1885 - September 7, 1962

Topics

LearningTimeDayEndLookBack

In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.

Jeremy Stoppelman

GoodOpportunityMomentEnoughEarly

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Andre Kertesz

MomentFeelRhythmEverythingEvery

My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mission to be a paragon to the rest of the world, to be about what human beings can accomplish if they work together and maintain their focus.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

WorkFatherHopeBestFocusWorld

What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

Michael Ignatieff

StrongPlaceTestWeakSourceWhere

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

Tom Shadyac

LoveTechnologySocietyDevelopment

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Mike White

CompassionYourselfMeUnderstanding

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Judy Holliday

FriendshipFriendsYouRightLovers

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

Javier Bardem

BetterAwardYouActorMake

Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.

Dennis Crowley

WorkTimeMeIdeasStupidThink

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

Colin Quinn

WorkWorldYouSayWayCynical

When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.

Clarissa Ward

TimeHumilityWorldSpending Time

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Brene Brown

MeEnoughAbundanceOppositeKids

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