Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Way
  • Books
  • Likes

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Open

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Water

• You never grow out of high school sadly.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • School
  • High
  • Grow

• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fashion

• Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Dead
  • Killed

• The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • True
  • Identity

• Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.

  

  Ma Long
  • Up
  • Team
  • Lost

• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Business
  • Man
  • Yourself

• I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • English
  • Stupid

• I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Look
  • Insecure

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Look
  • Feel Good

• I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Insurance

• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Long
  • Think
  • Control

• Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Business
  • Day
  • Sometimes

• Emotional Intelligence' refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships. It describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to, academic intelligence, the purely cognitive capacities measured by IQ.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Emotional

• Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Faith

• Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Real
  • Together
  • Night

• I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

  

  John Gallagher, Jr.

• Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg