This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents’ house.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
I’ve got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don’t know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
I dote on his very absence.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I’d be very, very happy.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it’s as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.
I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway.
Fereydun, that’s my dad’s name. My grandmother, my dad’s mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn’t his child, but he was still very supportive and said, ‘Hey, this is a great name,’ and so it stuck. So that’s what she named him.
There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else’s story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn’t have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don’t even have to be magical.
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug ‘Want to kill ya’ song, I’m ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I’m very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they’re trying to say with jazz. You don’t need any prologues, you just play.
What you wear – and it always starts with your shoes – determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself.
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he’s a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don’t know, overpowered by his presence. Like he’s a very mystic person. He’s older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world.
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
To be honest, I am very comfortable with myself.
I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me!
Follow me around. I don’t care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’d be very bored.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Having concrete, strong thoughts is very important.
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
It’s very important that we don’t make the same mistakes twice. That’s a big part of improvement.
Since I am known as a ‘rich’ person, I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!
The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn’t being applauded when you arrive – for that is common – but being missed when you leave.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Writing is like a ‘lust,’ or like ‘scratching when you itch.’ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
