Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Light
  • Single

• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Creative

• Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Lives
  • Very
  • Uninteresting

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Want

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Expected
  • Grandpa
  • Planned

• In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Why
  • American

• Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Time
  • Hate

• Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

  

  Craig Claiborne
  • Music
  • Training
  • Military

• I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Bones
  • Carry

• I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Life
  • Study
  • Period

• A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Liberty

• Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Courage
  • Knows
  • Seldom