Jean de la Bruyere Quote: 'The wise person often shuns society ...' @FEELquotes

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Arthur Ashe

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Seth Godin

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I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

Pina Bausch

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I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Alan Davies

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People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.

Kevin Mitnick

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One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter.

Vincent Nichols

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If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

Clyde Edgerton

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

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Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

Graham Norton

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When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.

Nick Offerman

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The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Tom Watson

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I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

Alfred Molina

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Not being happy really is my fear.

Keke Palmer

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Roger Craig

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas Huxley

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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Jack Nicholson

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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Ellery Channing

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