Hermann Hesse Quotes

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

Hermann Hesse

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• Thinking
• Respect
• Authority

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Stop

• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Yourself

• Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • World
  • High
  • Success

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Listen

• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Food

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Garden
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • High
  • Attention

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • School
  • Science
  • Education

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Long
  • You
  • Education

• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Better
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • People
  • Problem
  • Image

• Any structure that is part of Alfa Group, whether the Alfa Eco commodities trader or the Perekryostok supermarket chain, is treated by bank officers as an ordinary client without special privileges.

  

  Pyotr Aven

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• Your body is your subconscious mind and you can’t heal it by talk alone.

  

  Candace Pert
  • Body
  • Talk
  • Heal

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Respect