Quotes About Arete

#1. I think,' said Arete with warmth, 'that to go to sleep on a problem which one is too lazy to solve is a most foolish procedure.

Robert Graves

#2. Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.

Dan Simmons

#3. like the ancient Greek concept arete, I thought, virtue required moral, emotional, mental, and physical excellence. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and

Paul Kalanithi

#4. The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

Jack Reynor

#5. A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

Frank Moore Colby

#6. It is no wiser to taunt a man with words than to poke a wildcat with a stick.

Amanda Scott

#7. For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#8. An especially good way to gain weight is to have dinner with other people.11 On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 percent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 percent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 percent more.*

Richard H. Thaler

#9. There stood Dan alone, with a ninja mask pulled over his face. Fifteen hissing bottle rockets were pointed right them.
"Screaming bottle of death-jutsu!" Dan yelled.

Clifford Riley

#10. As long as something teaches you some things, do not be afraid of it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. When you're the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that's half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does - or can.

Brian Krzanich

#12. John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

Andrew Stanton

#13. Whatever is happening, it can all be sorted out.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein