Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Same
  • Editing
  • Exactly

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Him

• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
  • Love
  • Think
  • Acting

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reading
  • Enjoy
  • Behind

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Girl
  • Late
  • Meets

• The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Promise

• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Hand

• I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Friendship
  • Superman
  • Batman

• You can't take yourself too seriously.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

  

  James Brown
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Peace

• Spread the sickness, infect the world.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • World
  • Spread
  • Sickness

• You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

  

  Earl Hines
  • People
  • May
  • Shoes

• When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Real
  • Myth
  • Collision

• I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Choices
  • Walking
  • Audience

• It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.

  

  Emma Willard
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Artist

• From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Pretty
  • Theory

• All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Theory
  • Gray
  • Tree Of Life