Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Government
  • German

• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Motherhood

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Real
  • Doing

• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Light

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Start

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Determination

• I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Day
  • Waiting

• The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

  

  Tony Blair
  • Understanding
  • Parent
  • Individual

• Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Point
  • Instrument

• For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

  

  David Travis
  • Creative
  • Challenges
  • Process

• I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • War
  • Morning

• There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Attitude
  • Credit
  • Helicopter

• Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Creative
  • Master
  • Own Way