Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

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• I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Educational
  • Facilities

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Support
  • Nice
  • Red

• I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Better
  • Opportunities

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Myself
  • Planning
  • Economic

• People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Political
  • More

• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Children
  • Thrive

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Me

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Couple

• By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Change
  • Yourself

• That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Football

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fish

• I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

  

  Kevin Chapman
  • Black
  • Funny

• God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Impossible
  • Recognize

• Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Music
  • Laughter

• Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Book
  • Instructive