Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.
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The social body that had been effectively threatened by the diffusion of a faith that bordered on anarchism, on a total lack of interest in worldly matters (administration, commerce, etc.), … reacted in self-defense and absorbed the foreign body, making it serve its own ends.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.
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In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.
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Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
