Esa Saarinen Quotes

Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.

Esa Saarinen

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• A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Remember
  • Baby

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Real
  • Change
  • Action

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Divorce
  • Incredible
  • Phobia

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfortable

• I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Political

• There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Life

• Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Story

• A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Conservatory
  • Repertory
  • Ballets

• Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Nature
  • Bones
  • Buildings

• The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

  

  C. K. Prahalad
  • Attention
  • Management
  • Tasks

• The worst happens, and life still goes on.

  

  Alan Weisman
  • Life
  • Happens
  • Worst

• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Come

• You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • People
  • Philosophy
  • Lucky

• My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!

  

  Phil Daniels
  • Enjoy
  • Philosophy
  • Golf

• Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.

  

  Esa Saarinen
  • Philosophy
  • Outcome
  • Fermentation