Wilhelm Stekel Quotes

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Wilhelm Stekel

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Moderation

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Solution

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • You
  • Stand
  • Soft

• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Trying
  • Better
  • Said

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Complete
  • Outfit

• You always want your films to go as far as they can.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Want
  • You
  • Always

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• I claim the right not to incriminate myself.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos

• In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:-The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Words

• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

  

  George Eliot
  • Children
  • Sacrifice
  • Suffer

• A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • World
  • Without
  • Recognize

• When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Art
  • Night
  • Waiting

• Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

  

  Wilhelm Stekel
  • Art
  • Figures
  • Statistics