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

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• 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
  • Lost

• 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

• Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Live
  • Action

• You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Up
  • Action

• All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Action

• I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Lunch
  • Now And Then

• The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside of that, it has windows with an alleyway; then there's another wedge with windows outside, windows inside. And we call them the E Ring, the D Ring, the C Ring.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Inside
  • Ring
  • Windows

• The fast-growing hospitality industry is very much in need of skilled workers. Thousands of workers will benefit from the outreach, English literacy and occupational skills.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Growing
  • English
  • Industry

• When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Remember
  • Worry

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

  

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