Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• Sleep
• Genius
• Accomplishment

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• You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

  

  Young Thug
  • Internet
  • Media
  • Saying

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• The heart is the best reflective thinker.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Thinker

• Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Marriage
  • Married

• This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Book

• Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Consequence
  • Oil
  • Export

• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Money

• In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Deep
  • Gun

• In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.

  

  David Robinson The Cars

• I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Together
  • Health
  • Serious

• When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Gay

• I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Remember
  • House
  • Beautiful

• If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • School
  • Bad
  • Black

• Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Home
  • Power

• I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Life
  • Jesus

• I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Time
  • God
  • Experience

• We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Reality
  • Rest
  • Marriage

• They wanted me to have a point of view, to have my mind made up from the start on a number of things. I was to be tolerant but I was not to budge beyond a certain point, and if ever I was threatened at that point, I was to stand where I was and fight. My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. The said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.

  

  Ben Robertson
  • Character
  • Culture
  • Fight

• Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing: The bravest are the tenderest,-The loving are the daring.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Truth
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

  

  Blanche Lincoln
  • American
  • Dream
  • Education

• Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • World
  • Dream
  • Despair

• I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Genius