Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
Garry Shandling -
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow -
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
Edmund Phelps -
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Venus Williams -
A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
Dalai Lama -
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey -
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern -
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
Floyd Abrams -
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
Gabby Douglas
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We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
F. Gary Gray -
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte -
Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
Dana Perino -
These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Nonprofits such as the Trump Foundation are prohibited from giving political gifts.
David Fahrenthold -
Hell is other people, said the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and he wasn’t even a fat guy.
Hanne Blank -
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when this kind of monotony and silence, this most narrow of existences, had been preferable. Then again, once, I’d never known anything else.
Sarah Dessen -
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Tim Ferriss -
Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe