Johannes Kepler Quotes

A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

Johannes Kepler

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• Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

  

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• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

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• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

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• As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

  

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• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

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• I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

  

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• To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

  

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• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

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• The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

  

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• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

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• I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

  

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  • Great
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• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

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• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

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• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

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• Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

  

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• The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

  

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  • Work
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  • Up

• Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

  

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  • Life
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• A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Experience
  • Excitement
  • Unfailing