Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Learned
  • Birthdays
  • Boyhood

• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Learned
  • Manager

• Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Action
  • Always
  • Human

• There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Political
  • Action
  • Fight

• 'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • May
  • Guy

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Action
  • Style
  • Eye

• Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Action
  • Name
  • Without

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Action
  • More
  • Preparation

• In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Driving

• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Character
  • Action
  • Too Much

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Stop

• You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • Law
  • Action

• In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the better the performance. And now we know playing action video game actually fosters better templates.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • World
  • Game
  • Action

• [Magic] Johnson is seriously remarkable, in terms of what he has accomplished in his profession and outside of his profession as well.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Magic
  • Accomplished
  • Remarkable

• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Real
  • Heart

• If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Writing
  • Violence
  • Promise

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Action
  • Learned
  • Self-knowledge