Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Christoph Martin Wieland

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• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Insult
  • Google

• I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • America
  • Criticism

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
  • Care
  • Meetings

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • First

• In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Free
  • Party

• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Looking
  • Tragedy

• Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Science
  • Problem

• This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Care
  • Television

• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Know
  • Going
  • Answer

• We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Time
  • Great
  • Game

• We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.

  

  Charles Boustany
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Financial

• The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

  

  Helen Keller
  • Opportunity
  • Hands
  • Littles

• We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

  

  James Hillman
  • Soul

• The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

  

  Christoph Martin Wieland
  • Opportunity