Eyvind Johnson Quotes

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

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• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Way

• You can't win what you don't fight for.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Fight

• We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Past
  • Problems
  • Except

• I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Great
  • Believer
  • OHIO principle

• Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

  

  Sophocles
  • Know
  • Lies
  • Understand

• The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Party
  • Discipline
  • Half

• On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sense
  • Concept
  • Impressions

• There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Difference
  • Labor
  • Satisfied

• People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Decision

• Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Fall
  • Poet
  • Rhythm

• Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Poet

• A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Poet
  • Achieved
  • Backdrop