Firsts Quote by Susan Sontag

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to…

— Janet Malcolm

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…

— Susan Sontag

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but…

— Susan Sontag

Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the…

— Jeff Olson

The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by…

— Baruch Spinoza

“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to the right,…

— Daniel Goleman

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

— David Samuels

No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the…

— Francois Hollande

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education,…

— Giacomo Casanova

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the…

— Warren Buffett