Embarrassed Quote by Alain de Botton

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.” quote by Alain de Botton — Download Open image

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Embarrassed Embarrassed Year Enough Isn Embarrassed Isn Learning Last year Lasts Learning Years

More by Alain de Botton

“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.”

Alain de Botton

Image

“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.”

Alain de Botton

Image

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Alain de Botton

Image

“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.”

Alain de Botton

Image

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

Alain de Botton

Image

“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires…

Alain de Botton

Image

“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements…

Alain de Botton

Image

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

Alain de Botton

Image

“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.”

Alain de Botton

Image

“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not…

Alain de Botton

Image

“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.”

Alain de Botton

Image

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Alain de Botton

Image

Explore all 850 Alain de Botton quotes

More Embarrassed quotes

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

Anthony Jeselnik

Image

Some of the things I've done, like getting Justin Edinburgh sent off in the cup final by going down, I'm embarrassed - I cringe…

Robbie Savage

Image

I have pictures with Morimoto where I'm all embarrassed and he's so serious, it took me 30 minutes to get up the courage to…

Marcela Valladolid

Image

“Really? I'm trying to place you. It seems like we've met before." Did I just issue him a pick up line? Fantastic, I've now…

Jamie McGuire

Image

But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the…

Rachel Caine

Image

One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed…

Drew Carey

Image

Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all…

Sufjan Stevens

Image

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're…

Stephen King

Image

“The thing that truly amazes me about myself is that I’m actually more scared of being embarrassed than anything else.”

Melvin Burgess

Image

Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a…

Thomas Keating

Image

Global Warming Snowstorm Algore, paralyzing the upper Midwest two weeks before winter. Every time he shows up someplace, every time, it's almost comical, every…

Rush Limbaugh

Image

The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at…

Jim Cymbala

Image

Browse all 733 Embarrassed quotes

Embarrassed Quote by Alain de Botton

Related quotes

More by Alain de Botton

More Embarrassed quotes