Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.

Fernando Pessoa

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• I'm not a psychiatrist.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Psychiatrist

• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Way
  • Listen
  • Radio

• I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • America
  • Want
  • Decide

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Better
  • Try
  • Motivational

• I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Blood

• I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mood

• I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Alive

• When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Why
  • Remember

• But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Generation
  • News

• A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christianity
  • Conflict

• Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Police
  • Read
  • Report

• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Different
  • Think
  • Kind

• I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Money
  • Me
  • Stupid

• It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Easy
  • Harmony

• The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An artist who is lobbying as a 'creature of circumstances' or log rolling as a 'victim of fate' is not a fine master artist. No one ever forces an artist to be pure.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Fate

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  

  Euripides
  • Lives
  • Kill
  • Credence

• I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Structure

• Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.

  

  Fernando Pessoa