Ernst Gombrich Quotes

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

Ernst Gombrich

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • You
  • Nothing

• We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Find
  • Try
  • China

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Cancer
  • Treat
  • Medical

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • American
  • Together
  • Violence

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Gulf
  • Louisiana

• So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Support

• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • High
  • Struggle

• The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Coin

• After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Rock
  • Road
  • Bus

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Small
  • Grow
  • Manufacturing

• I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Simple

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Trying
  • History
  • Focus

• Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Band
  • Leaves
  • Coffin

• As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Calm

• To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Nice

• If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Women
  • Disappointment

• I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Up
  • School
  • Dealing

• I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Free
  • I Know
  • Black People

• Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Existence
  • Wars
  • Necessity

• One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

  

  Ernst Gombrich
  • Enjoy
  • Existence
  • Genius