Albert Einstein Quotes

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Same
  • Editing
  • Exactly

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Him

• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
  • Love
  • Think
  • Acting

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reading
  • Enjoy
  • Behind

• As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Artist
  • Sensitive

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Promise

• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Hand

• I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Friendship
  • Superman
  • Batman

• You can't take yourself too seriously.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• Spread the sickness, infect the world.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • World
  • Spread
  • Sickness

• You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

  

  Earl Hines
  • People
  • May
  • Shoes

• In a well-made garden every day is new.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Garden

• Think health, talk health, visualize health and better health will be your reward.

  

  Paavo Olavi Airola
  • Health

• Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's something that's not booming at the moment, let's slash it.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • Credit
  • Scientists
  • Humanities

• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Eternity
  • Human being
  • Idealism

• To the masculine mind there appears to be something strangely exhilarating in the thought of a woman being abruptly torn from her home without sufficient time to put her wardrobe in order, and to all the men responsible for this voyage the most delightful feature apparently of the whole affair was the fact that I should be forced to get ready in five hours for a seventy-five days' voyage around the world.

  

  Elizabeth Bisland
  • Home
  • Forced
  • Masculine

• When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Theory
  • Forced
  • Relativity