Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • People
  • Company
  • Down

• I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Year
  • Radio

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Action
  • Best
  • Brain

• I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Love
  • Book
  • Reading

• I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Character
  • Comedy

• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Constitution
  • Fair
  • Both

• In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Painting

• The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Man
  • Conscience
  • White

• As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Pain
  • Athlete

• And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Win

• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I like soundtracks and I like film.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Like
  • Film
  • Soundtracks

• I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Rock

• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • War
  • Fighting

• Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Justice
  • Ignorance
  • Equal

• We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.

  

  Sarah Gavron
  • Today
  • Battle
  • Abuse

• Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • School
  • Body
  • Equal

• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sunshine
  • February
  • Bud

• We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Equal
  • Sacrifices
  • Large