Social Icons
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes

Press ESC to close

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state and this state is constant.

Topic:

Work,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Share Article:
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Telegram Share on Whatsapp

Previous Article

Our environment the world in which we live and work is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Next Article

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

More in this CategoryWork

Work
View All Articles
1

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

2

The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'

3

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

4

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

View All Articles

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Article Information

Category: Work

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.
  • 2. Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
  • 3. Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
  • 2. When I left the show the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.
  • 3. You know 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young and it was a show about old people and it was a very traditional show but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

3 Anger

  • 1. Although you may spend your life killing You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger your real enemy will be slain.
  • 2. I did not want to put myself on the line as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive possessive – and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger – or my own reputation.
  • 3. Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway and those are punished most who most obey.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If I have a style I am not aware of it.
  • 2. I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
  • 3. The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.
© Diamant Group 2025