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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Job

• Kids would tell me I was fat and say other mean things about my body.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Kids

• I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Crying

• I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Time
  • Long

• I try not to think about the person, just their tactics, their weaknesses and strengths. I play against the ball.

  

  Ana Ivanovic

• Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hills,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Heaven
  • March

• We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

  

  John Lynch
  • People
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Interesting
  • Fit

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

  

  Ernst Haas