Anton Chekhov Quotes

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

Anton Chekhov

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• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Political
  • You
  • Car

• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Band
  • Sound

• The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Government
  • Economics

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thought

• I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Walk

• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Political
  • Food

• Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Responsibility

• So you have to take the good with the bad.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Good
  • Bad
  • You

• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Win
  • Down

• I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Movie
  • Fire
  • Alive

• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Friends

• Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Jesus
  • Hamlet

• Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Different
  • Words

• To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Work

• The rain whispered down, soft as the touch of cobwebs, shrouding the green of the land in swathes of clinging grey. Maude had grown accustomed to the damp climate, to the clouds that constantly swept in, heavy and moist, off the Irish Sea. She had become used to hearing the soft, guttural tongue of the native Gaels in place of French and the stretched vowels of the English; to feeling as if she was living on the edge of the world, where the seasons moved, but time stood still. And always it rained.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Rain
  • Irish
  • Moved

• For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Great
  • Best

• This is a team we told our guys not to foul, and we end up sending them to the line 35 times. That was one of the things we didn't expect.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Team
  • Guys

• The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

  

  Anton Chekhov