Hannu Rajaniemi Quotes

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

Hannu Rajaniemi

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Sound

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Confidence

• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Time
  • History
  • Mythology

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I'm gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Want
  • Happiness
  • Secret

• History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • History
  • Years
  • Story

• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Children
  • Night
  • Die

• If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • Home
  • Murder
  • Confess

• You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

  

  C. Delores Tucker

• Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

  

  Gabriel Ba
  • Book
  • Career
  • Careers

• If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Recognize
  • Unexpected
  • Arrives

• It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

  

  Plato
  • Way
  • I Think
  • Excellence

• For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • Men
  • Universe
  • Difficult

• This is a pattern of lawyers and others in the White House busting their backs to do the best work they can to be try to be responsive.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Work
  • House
  • White House

• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Force
  • Agreement
  • Limitations

• Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Price
  • Immortality