Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Same
  • Editing
  • Exactly

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Alien

• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
  • Love
  • Think
  • Acting

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reading
  • Enjoy
  • Behind

• As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Artist
  • Sensitive

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Promise

• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Hand

• I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Friendship
  • Superman
  • Batman

• You can't take yourself too seriously.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• Spread the sickness, infect the world.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • World
  • Spread
  • Sickness

• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Care

• When something's over with me, it's over.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Over

• The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Picture
  • Theory
  • Selection

• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Theory
  • Charm
  • Refutable