D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

The root cause of terrorism is terrorists.

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Good fashion is evolution, not revolution.

The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement

Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.