Hermann Hesse Quotes

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

Hermann Hesse

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  

  Odette Annable
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lift

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Reality

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Light

• I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Myself
  • Decision

• One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Bad
  • Success
  • Reputation

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • World
  • Music
  • Man

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Happy
  • Black
  • Gay

• Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Politics
  • Easy
  • Gossip

• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Time
  • Music
  • Stop

• The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Different
  • Partner

• We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • May
  • Strong

• My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Father

• I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Great
  • Value
  • Dark

• Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • God
  • Believe
  • Effort

• My wedding dress is a piece of art that I'll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Forever

• The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Power

• The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Art
  • Magic
  • Trusts