Charles Hummel Quotes
Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.
Quotes to Explore
-
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
-
The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
-
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
-
I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
-
I'm mostly vegetarian.
-
To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
-
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
-
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
-
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
-
Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
-
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
-
When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
-
We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
-
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
-
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
-
People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
-
I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
-
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
-
If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist.
-
I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
-
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
-
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
-
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
-
Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.
