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

• Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Style

• 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