Max Planck Quotes

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

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• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Space
  • Intelligent

• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Door

• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Feedback

• I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time
  • Success
  • Respect

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Know
  • Mirror

• I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Interesting

• I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Literally
  • Graphics
  • Update

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• To lead people walk behind them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Walk
  • Lead

• My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Bloom

• I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Emotion
  • More
  • Show

• A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Me
  • Idea

• I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

  

  Jared Harris

• What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; and that, when we come across a problem, we marshal all of our energies to solve it. This, more than any elaborate party or turreted workstation, is why I love coming to work in the morning. It is what motivates me and gives me a definite sense of mission.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Work
  • Problems
  • Mission

• I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Found
  • Lunatic
  • Moron

• I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

  

  Max Planck