Dorothea Brande Quotes

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Dorothea Brande

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • America
  • Same

• I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Young
  • Will
  • Really

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Kind
  • Weird
  • Television

• My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Learning
  • Three

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Prince
  • Realize
  • Go

• You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Fashion
  • Choose
  • Vote

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Together

• At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Nation
  • Give

• Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Hate
  • Israel

• There was the chance that someday he would surprise her, that she would turn to face her husband and find a stranger in his place, a stranger who didn't approve of her and didn't want her in his life anymore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • She
  • Husband

• I think for most new kids it’s important to sound different from the rest, to have your own sound, to be able to produce something that’s not there yet . . . If you want to be unique and you want to be a big DJ, create your own style, create your own signature.

  

  Nicky Romero
  • Style
  • Create
  • Signature

• I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.

  

  Craig Thompson
  • Desire
  • Focus
  • Islamic

• The belt doesn't represent me; it's how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • People
  • Champion

• 'I am bored.' Who knows this?'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this?You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Sad
  • Angry
  • Bored

• I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Projects
  • Ultimate
  • Assembly

• A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

  

  Dorothea Brande