Ernst Haas Quotes

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

Ernst Haas

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• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Time
  • Win
  • Chess

• I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Risk

• Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • American
  • Today
  • Dream

• I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Up
  • Air
  • Horse

• As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Mother
  • Future

• Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Aunt

• I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Girl

• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality – it resists and makes demands..

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Important
  • Integrity
  • Intuition

• I am, each day,typing out the Godmy typewriter believes in.Very quick. Very intense,like a wolf at a live heart.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Wolf

• That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She Kelly got the prince Rainier, I got the part.'

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Movies
  • Playing
  • Prince

• I think that any business that thinks that the transaction is 'you give me money and I give you food, next, you give me money and I give you food, next,' without understanding that people deeply want to feel restored is in danger.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Struggle

• Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

  

  Elizabeth Vargas
  • Country
  • Baby

• When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Decision
  • Swimming

• Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

  

  Chaim Potok

• I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Money
  • Today
  • Space

• There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

  

  John Piper
  • Bible
  • Rightness
  • Pointers

• Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

  

  Ernst Haas