Etty Hillesum Quotes

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

Etty Hillesum

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• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

  

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• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

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• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

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• When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

  

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• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

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• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

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• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

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• I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

  

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• I don't believe in God.

  

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• I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

  

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• When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

  

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• Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

  

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• If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

  

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• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

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• Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.

  

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• You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be... as I am.

  

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• When I was touring in Texas, that was before iPods and Spotify. Driving around through towns, I had to, out of necessity, scroll the radio. Whatever region of the country you are in, that's a great way to find out what they listen to. You find music wherever you are, and that becomes the soundtrack for whatever your road trip is.

  

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• I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.

  

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• But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

  

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  • Life
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• After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Character
  • Creative Act
  • Moral Sense