"You confuse what's important with what's impressive." — E. M. Forster
"You confuse what's important with what's impressive."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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More Confuse Quotes
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one of 441 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying…
— William Bernbach
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
— Brenda Blethyn
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
— Erma Bombeck
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
— William S. Burroughs
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Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
— Hillary Clinton
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
— Laurie Anderson
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's…
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
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