"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."
― Alain de Botton
Topic(s):
Respect
― Alain de Botton
More From Alain de Botton
- "What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
- "The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it’s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."
- "I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
More In Respect
- "One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."― Maria Montessori
- "There’s immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters."― Garth Ennis
- "I take any opportunity I can to raise our country’s flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there."― Kirsty Coventry