Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.

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• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Today
  • Road
  • End

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mind
  • City
  • Crazy

• It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Words
  • You
  • I Can

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Needs

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Food

• When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Women
  • American
  • Team

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Day
  • Training

• I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Years

• I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

  

  Paul Merton
  • Funny
  • Victim
  • Crash

• We know it because, if we look below the surface, we sense it still spreading on every continent - for it is the most humane, the most advanced, and in the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Society

• La danse peut révéler tout ce que la musique recèle de mystérieux, et elle a de plus le mérite d'être humaine et palpable. La danse, c'est la poésie avec des bras et des jambs, ...

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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