Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Baltasar Gracian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658

Topics

ThingsSeemPassJacketsMost

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

Joe Baca

CreatingTaxNewRepublicansSend

I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.

Matt Cain

HabitBadDownStrikeLeverageTop

I've started to believe that the agency business is a great ingredient of a much bigger business - more than just what typical advertising agencies have done.

Steve Stoute

BusinessGreatAdvertisingBelieve

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

Moby

WorkPeopleRandomLearnInteresting

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

Lucio Tan

BuySellThing

I don't have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn't allow myself to anymore.

Jaylen Brown

FailureFearMyselfUsedAllowAny

I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.

Joshua Bell

LoveMusicUniqueDifferentWays

I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.

Joseph Fiennes

ChildMeThinkVillageMoreOut

My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm the audience feels when seeing the movie.

Chris Meledandri

CharacterExperienceEnthusiasm

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

Armie Hammer

GovernmentThinkCareEnjoyYouOwn

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

Arne Glimcher

NightDoingAgainstAuctionStill

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

Wynton Marsalis

ManCompetitionFaceYouPlaying

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