Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
Aaron Diehl
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
Walter Gropius
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
Odilon Redon
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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
Al Pacino
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Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
Alfred Kinsey
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The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
Napoleon Hill
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To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
Conrad Hall
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Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
Jacques Lacan
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The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.
Abraham Lincoln
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Oscar Wilde
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
Stephen Covey
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
Barbara Palvin
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Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.
George Gilder
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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
John Milton
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The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
