Elsa Einstein Quotes
[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.
Quotes to Explore
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time
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I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'
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I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.
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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.
