According Quotes

• Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Eternity
  • Measure
  • Spend

• Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • World
  • Everything
  • Dignified

• He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Live
  • According

• Pray according to faith, not circumstances.

  

  Woodrow M. Kroll
  • Circumstances
  • According

• I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.

  

  Mohammad bin Salman
  • Elements
  • According
  • Zuckerberg

• If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Nature
  • Rich
  • Poor

• The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Beginning
  • Errors
  • According

• The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

  

  Francis Arinze
  • Language
  • Changes
  • Catholic

• American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

  

  David Boaz
  • American
  • Schools
  • Organized

• Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.

  

  Echo Bodine
  • Society
  • Intuition
  • Encouraged

• Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

  

  Remy de Gourmont
  • Interests
  • Truths
  • Prejudices

• I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'

  

  Denis Fahey
  • Years
  • Daughter
  • Company

• Even though I'm really into fashion, I'm into fashion as a means of creative expression. I dress myself according to my personal creative expression... I try to keep it comfortable. I try to keep it simple.

  

  Musiq Soulchild
  • Creative
  • Expression
  • Comfortable

• We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Wants
  • According

• "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” So asserted Karl Marx in Critique of the Gotha Programme.

  

  Clara Fraser
  • Needs
  • Abilities
  • Karl Marx

• I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

  

  Alaa Al Aswany
  • Expectations
  • Slave
  • According

• For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because God has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

  

  Tertullian
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • According

• ...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

  

  Ally Carter
  • Movies
  • Plan
  • According

• God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Pieces
  • Purposes

• You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • According

• Well clearly Graeme it all went according to plan, what was the plan exactly ?

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Plan
  • According

• A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

  

  Kate Langley Bosher
  • Succeed
  • Would
  • According

• It isn't that easy to live according to intuition, yet, it's so totally cool once we can get beyond the other voices and hear our intuition.

  

  Echo Bodine
  • Intuition
  • Voices
  • According

• It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Things
  • Fate
  • Happen

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