Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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  • Game
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• Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Development

• Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Development
  • Modern

• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
  • Bullish

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • True
  • Development

• I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • America
  • Development
  • Excited

• My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Goal
  • Model
  • Development

• What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • See
  • Influence
  • Development

• I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Building
  • Development
  • Commercial

• The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Taken
  • Development
  • Youth

• NEPA's common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Development
  • Collaboration

• Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Kids
  • Growth
  • Development

• People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

  

  Adam Giles
  • People
  • Job
  • Development

• Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Model
  • Development
  • Cooperation

• There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • World
  • Development
  • Cyber

• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • High
  • Poetry
  • Drama

• If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • New
  • Development

• A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Hero

• Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Humanity

• The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Development

• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Real
  • Humble
  • Dignity

• I am a big-structured guy, and so I always felt my weight was justified until I chanced upon Cavemen's diet.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Cavemen`s diet
  • Big-structured guy

• Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Long
  • Care

• To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Development
  • Appropriate
  • Suitable