Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

Maybe it’s time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can’t be explained.

Jennifer Ott

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

Dan Glickman

It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

Jose Ferreira

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Juliana Hatfield

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Jeremy Irons

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Michael Ignatieff

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

Portia de Rossi

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Arthur Henderson

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

George Henry Lewes

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

Amos Lee

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Albert Camus

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Alex Payne

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Bruno Bettelheim

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

William Donaldson

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

Damian Lewis

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the space of the industrial economy dominates the social space in which the Parisian worker or intellectual develops, to what extent could resi...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are required to make a rock. So why no...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space