Paul Tillich Quotes

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Paul Tillich

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• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Imagination

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Different
  • Learned
  • Relic

• As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • World
  • Great
  • Believe

• A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Light
  • Learning

• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

  

  Ben Crenshaw
  • Game

• During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Divorce

• When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.

  

  Danny Danon
  • Why
  • House
  • Leadership

• I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

  

  Broderick Crawford
  • Up
  • Hair

• In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • America
  • Food

• I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Justice
  • Thoughts
  • Green

• I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Country
  • Hope

• No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Relationship
  • Gentleman

• It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • People
  • Perception

• Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • Together
  • Space

• There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Wisdom

• The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

  

  Paul Johnson
  • Today
  • Meaningful
  • Meaningless

• Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity, Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.

  

  Chi-Ali
  • Needs
  • Maturity
  • Insecurity

• I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Society
  • City
  • Mean

• America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Poverty

• The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Maturity