What did Alain de Botton mean by: There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Enough, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Body, Mind, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Anticipation, Instruments, Memories, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Mind, Morning, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Normal, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Dignity, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Destiny, Longing, Stronger, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Not everyone is worth listening to. Feraz Zeid, July 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Alain de Botton, Listening, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
