Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Louisiana
  • Racists

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Stars

• We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Brother
  • Trouble
  • Chicago

• When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Sex

• I love Star City - it is my home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Love
  • Home
  • City

• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Politics
  • Side
  • Lot

• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Talent
  • Genius

• The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Mind
  • High
  • Peace

• I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Moment

• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Problem
  • Better
  • End

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Body

• Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Up
  • May
  • Friends

• I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Time
  • Man
  • Situation

• Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Good
  • American
  • Nature

• And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?

  

  Rachel True
  • Time
  • School
  • Learn

• Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Body
  • Changes
  • Self Image

• The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problems

• A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Man
  • Determine
  • Wills