Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Always
  • Process

• I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Unique

• I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Business
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • You
  • Commitment
  • Honesty

• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
  • Tax

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Question

• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Remember
  • Attention
  • Baby

• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Blind

• I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Face
  • Really
  • Coin

• The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Party

• Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Well
  • Undervalued

• Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Reality
  • Nothing
  • Importance