Carl Zuckmayer Quotes

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

Carl Zuckmayer

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• I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• 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 want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Language

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Jail
  • Jury

• I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Cat
  • Judging
  • Performance

• The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Free
  • Law
  • Control

• Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Learning
  • Organization

• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Art
  • Book
  • Care

• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Party
  • Chinese

• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Think

• Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Summer

• I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Camera
  • Recognize
  • Awe

• I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Ideas
  • Red
  • Blue

• When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Live

• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Movie
  • House

• It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Sin
  • Grace

• Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Breakup

• Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Water
  • Cold

• Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

  

  Carl Zuckmayer
  • People
  • Think
  • See