Eugene J. Martin Quotes

Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.

Eugene J. Martin

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• Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Game
  • You
  • Baseball

• I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Movies
  • Two
  • Shades

• I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Person
  • Favorite

• The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Ares 1-X

• People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • People
  • Kind
  • Car

• I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

  

  Alan Alda
  • May
  • Play
  • I Think

• I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • People
  • America
  • Career

• It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Opinion

• Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Governing
  • Boiling
  • Large State

• Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Goal
  • Means
  • Seeker

• There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Write
  • Reader
  • Authors

• Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Laws
  • Traditions

• I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Fear
  • Communicate
  • Bones

• Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

  

  William J. Mitchell
  • Thinking
  • Successful
  • Intelligent

• Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Communicate