Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
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• I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
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• Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Moment

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
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  • Brother

• When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Beautiful
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• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Live
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• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Step

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Trust

• One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• If I watch something, I want to be wondering what is going to happen next; I want to be engaged in a way that makes me ask questions and think about how I can relate myself to the characters and the issues that are there. But if it's just fluff, and everything is spelt out, I find it difficult to concentrate.

  

  Ewen Bremner
  • Issues
  • Watch
  • Concentrate

• One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fear
  • Habit