Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

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• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

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• A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• God is everywhere.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

  

  Tanya Tucker
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• Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.

  

  Gary Allan
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• I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.

  

  Jack Lowden
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• Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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• At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.

  

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• Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man.

  

  Arjun Rampal
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• Honestly, I've been making up everything as I go. When you're riding the ice pony, you see a lot of talking frogs.

  

  Jim Henson
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• Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings.

  

  Owen King
  • Art
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• Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

  

  Ellen Glasgow
  • Experience

• What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Power
  • Happy
  • Manner