Elias Canetti Quotes

Ehrgeiz ist der Tod des Denkens.

Elias Canetti

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• A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Goals
  • Diversity
  • Sales

• There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • You
  • Back
  • Three

• I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • She
  • Better
  • Sorry

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Country
  • You
  • Famous

• In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Language
  • Body
  • Skills

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • You
  • Way
  • Same

• The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Important
  • Athlete

• The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Response
  • Generosity

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Kind

• Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Road
  • Married
  • Evolve

• On Christmas morning, we always make breakfast, and everyone eats before we open any presents. I make muffins and homemade applesauce, which I don't think anyone likes as much as I do... I just love the way it makes the house smell!

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Open
  • Smell
  • Likes

• Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Movie
  • Best
  • Decision

• I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Great
  • Technology

• Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• It was like two drunks in a back alley throwing punches at each other.

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Two
  • Back Alleys
  • Throwing Punches

• Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.

  

  Daniel Benjamin
  • Army
  • Tomorrow
  • Conflict

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Pretty

• Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Period
  • Grief
  • Chaos

• Ehrgeiz ist der Tod des Denkens.

  

  Elias Canetti