Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

Erwin Schrodinger

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• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Motion

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Road
  • Picture
  • Down

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • World
  • Picture
  • Successful

• Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Children
  • May
  • Power

• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Picture
  • Museum

• For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Picture

• And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Remember
  • Picture

• I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Hand
  • Picture

• Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • People
  • Job
  • Book

• I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.

  

  Jim Webb
  • America
  • War
  • Effort

• A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• 'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Bad
  • Earth
  • Beginning

• The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

  

  Matt Damon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Guy

• I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • House

• Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Why
  • Picture

• The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• A world championship medal on the road is something that I'm missing from my CV.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • World
  • Road
  • Missing

• Independent of biological need fulfillment and the reproductive needs of the species, cultures satisfy not bodily needs, but values. Values define cultural man's need for rationality, meaningfulness in emotional experience, richness of imagination, and depth of faith. All cultures respond to such supra-biological values. But in what form they do so depends on the specific kind of values people happen to have.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Experience
  • Faith
  • Imagination

• What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

  

  Claire Cook
  • World
  • Sisters
  • Polite

• Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
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  • Found
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