Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Carl von Clausewitz

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• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • War
  • Lost
  • Pain

• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Single
  • Day
  • Election

• I have no regrets. I've got my health.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Health
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Science
  • Understand
  • I Can

• I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Time
  • Success
  • Be Yourself

• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Colleagues

• ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Car
  • Days
  • Nose

• I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Up
  • War
  • Girl

• Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Done
  • Band

• I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

  

  Bill Hicks

• Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Life

• When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.

  

  Gayle King
  • Lost
  • Morning

• If something catches your attention, it's probably going to catch the attention of others, too.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Attention

• Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Sometimes

• Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • World

• The enlightened soul is a person who is self-conscious of his "human condition" in his time and historical and social setting, and whose awareness inevitably and necessarily gives him a sense of social responsibility.

  

  Ali Shariati
  • Soul
  • Responsibility
  • Condition

• When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz