Top 24 Metier Quotes
#1. The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
Neil Strauss
#3. Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
[Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#4. I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
Kevin Kline
#5. In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.
Vincent Van Gogh
#6. Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
William S. Wilson
#7. Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
[Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#8. I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Sigmund Freud
#9. The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure ... the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.
Livy
#10. I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
Vikram Seth
#11. How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.
Allen Ginsberg
#12. For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
#13. I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.
Tika Sumpter
#14. I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
David LaChapelle
#15. Opportunities in life are meant to be utilized and invested in
Sunday Adelaja
#17. The fact that I have such a problem that people ... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.
Werner Klemperer
#18. For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
Alex Graves
#19. Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom, Putin said.
Vladimir Putin
#20. Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her - the opportunity, the courage.
Gustave Flaubert
#21. That's how Tenleigh affected me. I wanted her so desperately I felt like some part of me was starving for her.
Mia Sheridan
#22. Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
Jeff Bezos
#23. We have to stop the idea that we are going to create something out of nothing, but instead attract to ourselves what is already here.
Wayne Dyer
#24. Good strong hair,' he was fond of saying, 'means there's a good strong brain underneath.' 'Like Shakespeare,' Matilda had once said to him. 'Like who?' 'Shakespeare, Daddy.' 'Was he brainy?' 'Very, Daddy.' 'He had masses of hair, did he?' 'He was bald, Daddy.
Roald Dahl
