Max Frisch Quotes
How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.
Quotes to Explore
-
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
-
Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
-
With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
-
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
-
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
-
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
-
The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
-
Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
-
I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
-
London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
-
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
-
When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
-
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
-
Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
-
I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
-
I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
-
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
-
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
There's no reason why there needs to be one search engine or one social network or one store that we buy all of our crap from. It's possible to imagine a world in which there's actually competition.
-
It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
-
Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
-
How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.
