Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Computers

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Morning
  • Feel

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Economy

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Never
  • Give
  • Encouragement

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Me

• I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Now
  • Going

• The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Culture
  • Progress

• I'm going to make myself seem more mysterious because I'm really not so mysterious. Or, if I am, it's because everybody is a mystery. Now that I'm older, at least I can be more amused by what people said.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Mysterious

• Lookin' so innocent,I might believe you if I didn't know.Could'a loved you all my life,If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold.And you got your share of secrets,And I'm tired of being last to know.And now you're asking me to listen'Cause it's worked each time before.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Don't talk it, walk it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica

• Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Decision

• Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Interesting
  • Stop
  • Kind

• Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

  

  Bella Bathurst
  • Thoughts
  • Loss
  • Wait

• Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Effort
  • Mirror

• I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Power
  • Energy

• Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thoughts
  • Life is
  • Troubles