Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Carl von Clausewitz

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• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

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• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

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• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

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• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

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• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

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• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

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• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

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• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

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• Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

  

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• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

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• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

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• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  

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• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

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• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  

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• Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

  

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• I understand that it's the thought that counts, but receiving money is so great, so if you're in a position to give an employee a bonus, just do that.

  

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• It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.

  

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• Life's hard, Love's harder.

  

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• Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Alone