Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Director

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Sad
  • Election
  • Capable

• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Success
  • Grateful
  • Divine

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Education
  • First

• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • People
  • Art
  • Write

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Together
  • Wanted
  • Shows

• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Live
  • High
  • Food

• Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Up
  • Value

• Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Good
  • Love
  • Power

• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Motivational
  • Determination