Being Rounded Quotes

#1. Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Brewster Kahle

#2. Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

Seth Godin

#3. Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right.
Lucy Scarborough
Nancy Werlin

Nancy Werlin

#4. Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

Jacqueline Bisset

#5. I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

John Carmack

#6. The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

Joshua Harris

#7. I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.

Nick Hornby

#8. I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

William Weld

#9. A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.

Walter J. Phillips

#10. We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#11. I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Julie Andrews

#12. In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.

Edward Conlon

#13. I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

Big Sean

#14. You can push my buttons all you want. Just don't pull any of my levers.

Carroll Bryant

#15. Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Ice Cube

#16. This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.

Bret Easton Ellis

#17. Books are written little by little ... as the cat eats the fish.

Lynda K. Scott

#18. Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

Seth Godin

#19. Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

Trent Reznor

#20. People in general misunderstand me. I'm very aware of the stereotype that comes with being a basketball player. But I'm well-rounded. I'm cultured. It's funny: When I speak, people are like, "Wow! You can really talk." I'm like, "What did you expect?"

Chris Bosh

#21. The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

Gayle King

#22. Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty ...

Arthur Davison Ficke

#23. I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being ... improper."
"Improper, is it?"
"Inappropriate."
"Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.

Veronica Wolff