Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
Vikram Seth -
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
Ralph Merkle -
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
Kate DiCamillo -
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
Bashar al-Assad -
Health care should be affordable for everyone.
Ed Pastor -
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
Mahmoud Darwish
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
Karen Finerman -
A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
Paddy Considine -
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
Damien Chazelle -
They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
Abdullah Ibrahim -
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
R. C. Sproul
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn -
How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?
Amy Lowell -
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
C. S. Lewis -
All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
Brian Perkins -
A trauma can be successfully processed only if all those brain structures are kept online. In Stan’s case, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) allowed him to access his memories of the accident without being overwhelmed by them. When the brain areas whose absence is responsible for flashbacks can be kept online while remembering what has happened, people can integrate their traumatic memories as belonging to the past.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
Laini Taylor -
Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
Jack Canfield -
Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
Oscar Wilde -
Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.
Yulia Tymoshenko -
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe