Miroslav Lajcak Quotes

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

Miroslav Lajcak

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• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • World
  • Men
  • Silent

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Men
  • Job
  • Truth

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • School
  • High
  • City

• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Gullible

• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Money
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Player

• There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Night
  • Period

• Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

  

  Lalita Tademy
  • Men
  • Long
  • Country

• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • World
  • Happy

• If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Life
  • Success
  • Ambition

• Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Man
  • Prayers
  • Hermit

• We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Delayed
  • Jurist

• I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Ends

• Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • World
  • Surprise
  • Chairs

• Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Cancer
  • Conflicts

• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Balance
  • Anxiety
  • Disease

• It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Easier
  • Effective
  • Conflicts