Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Quotes to Explore
-
Snobbery just inhibits you.
-
It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
-
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
-
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
-
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
-
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
-
I am pretty tough as a boss.
-
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
-
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
-
They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
-
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
-
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
-
I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
-
It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
-
If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
-
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
-
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
-
I hope that youngsters and civil society organizations and every Indian will feel proud. It is a noble cause to work for the rights of children. It is a movement against child labour and everyone must join it.
-
I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.
-
What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
-
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
-
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.
-
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
