Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • She
  • Remember

• I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Hand

• Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Important
  • Nation
  • Presence

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • People
  • Live
  • Soul

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Health
  • Day

• I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Career
  • Play
  • Characters

• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Know
  • Relationship

• Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Try
  • Excellence

• I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Great
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Different
  • May
  • Taken

• Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Time

• J'ai vu le soleil bas, taché d'horreurs mystiques,Illuminant de longs figements violets,Pareils à des acteurs de drames très-antiques.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Long
  • Women

• Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Language
  • Silence
  • Weakness

• My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Students
  • Test
  • Mark Twain

• As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Children
  • American

• Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg