Albert Einstein Quotes

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Albert Einstein

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• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  

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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

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• A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

  

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• Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

  

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• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

  

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• It's really no different for me 'cause I work for BET so it's like the writers are always on strike.

  

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• When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

  

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• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  

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• It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.

  

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• I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.

  

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• What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.

  

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• What I try to do is find a language for life.

  

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• I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.

  

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• How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make. As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us, neck and wrist. Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine, ere free we stand. As we builded, stone by stoene, We must toil, unhelped, alone, Till the wall is overthrown.

  

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• To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

  

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• To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

  

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• It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

  

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• I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

  

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• When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

  

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• When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you've learned in your drills are better than your opponent's. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.

  

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• Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Necessity
  • Compulsion
  • Inner