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«People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
contemptuous, might-have-been, scornful, treated
«The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.»
«Business is a combination of war and sport.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
combination, sport
«Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Modesty,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
modesty, pass by, unselfishness
«Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
dispatch, dispatched, talk of
«Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Style
| Keywords:
hallmark, stamped, temperament
«The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
effectiveness, geometric, geometric progression, increases, interruptions, progression
«The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
adjustment, adolescent, adolescents, break loose, breathing, Feel the Need, in writing, maladjusted, resolving
«A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.»
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