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Elbert Hubbard Foto

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Eine Maschine kann die Arbeit von fünfzig gewöhnlichen Menschen leisten. Keine Maschine kann die Arbeit eines außergewöhnlichen Mannes leisten.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Quelle: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 151

Confucius Foto

“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. [by 朱冀平]
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV

Woody Allen Foto

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
Männer lernen, die Frau zu lieben, von der sie angezogen werden. Frauen lernen, sich von dem Mann angezogen zu fühlen, in den sie sich verlieben.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
John Steinbeck Foto

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
In Wahrheit steckt mehr Schönheit, auch wenn es schreckliche Schönheit ist.

John Steinbeck buch East of Eden

Quelle: East of Eden

Albert Einstein Foto

“Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity.”
Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

As discussed in this entry from The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/#more-173, the earliest published attribution of a similar quote to Einstein seems to have been in Gestalt therapist Frederick S. Perls' 1969 book Gestalt Theory Verbatim, where he wrote on p. 33: "As Albert Einstein once said to me: 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.' But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing." Perls also offered another variant in his 1972 book In and Out the Garbage Pail, where he mentioned a meeting with Einstein and on p. 52 http://books.google.com/books?id=HuxFAAAAYAAJ&q=human+stupidity#search_anchor quoted him saying: "Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe." However, Perls had given yet another variant of this quote in an earlier book, Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: a Revision of Freud’s Theory and Method (originally published 1942, although the Quote Investigator only checked that the quote appeared in the 1947 edition), where he attributed it not to Einstein but to a "great astronomer", writing: "As modern times promote hasty eating to a large extent, it is not surprising to learn that a great astronomer said: 'Two things are infinite, as far as we know – the universe and human stupidity.' To-day we know that this statement is not quite correct. Einstein has proved that the universe is limited." So, the later attributions in 1969 and 1972 may have been a case of faulty memory, or of intentionally trying to increase the authority of the quote by attributing it to Einstein. The quote itself may be a variant of a similar quote attributed even earlier to the philosopher Ernest Renan, found for example in The Public: Volume 18 from 1915, which says on p. 1126 http://books.google.com/books?id=cTPmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1126#v=onepage&q&f=false: "He quotes the saying of Renan: it isn't the stars that give him an idea of infinity; it is man's stupidity." (Other examples of similar attributions to Renan can be found on this Google Books search http://www.google.com/search?q=renan+infinity+stupidity&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1.) Renan was French so this is presumably intended as a translation, but different sources give different versions of the supposed original French quote, such as "La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l'infini" (found for example in Réflexions sur la vie, 1895-1898 by Remy de Gourmont from 1903, p. 103 http://books.google.com/books?id=RtrtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q&f=false, along with several other early sources as seen in this search http://www.google.com/search?q=%22humaine+est+la+seule+chose+qui%22+renan&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1) and "Ce n'est pas l'immensité de la voûte étoilée qui peut donner le plus complétement l'idée de l'infini, mais bien la bêtise humaine!" (found in Broad views, Volume 2 from 1904, p. 465 http://books.google.com/books?id=9NEaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA465#v=onepage&q&f=false). Since these variants have not been found in Renan's own writings, they may represent false attributions as well. They may also be variants of an even older saying; for example, the 1880 book Des vers by Guy de Maupassant includes on p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=cQUvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP21#v=onepage&q&f=false a quote from a letter (dated February 19, 1880) by Gustave Flaubert where Flaubert writes "Cependant, qui sait? La terre a des limites, mais la bêtise humaine est infinie!" which translates to "But who knows? The earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is infinite!" Similarly the 1887 book Melanges by Jules-Paul Tardivel includes on p. 273 http://books.google.com/books?id=n9cOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273#v=onepage&q&f=false a piece said to have been written in 1880 in which he writes "Aujourd'hui je sais qu'il n'y a pas de limites à la bêtise humaine, qu'elle est infinie" which translates to "today I know that there is no limit to human stupidity, it is infinite."
Disputed
Variante: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Earliest version located is in Technocracy digest: Issues 287–314 from 1988, p. 76 http://books.google.com/books?id=L7LnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22sure+about+the+former%22#search_anchor. Translated to German as: "Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. Aber beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher." (Earliest version located is Arndt-Michael Meyer, Die Macht der Kürze, Books on Demand GmbH, 2004, p. 14 http://books.google.gr/books?id=12DW-RBKTW8C&pg=PA14&dq=%22Zwei+Dinge+sind+unendlich:+das+Universum+und+die+menschliche+%22+arnd&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gquJUsrYBomM7AapmYGgCQ&ved=0CC8Q6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Zwei%20Dinge%20sind%20unendlich%3A%20das%20Universum%20und%20die%20menschliche%20%22%20arnd&f=false.)
Variante: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Charles Bukowski Foto

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”
Liebe ist für die, die mit der psychischen Überlastung umgehen können. Es ist, als würde man versuchen, einen vollen Mülleimer auf dem Rücken über einen reißenden Fluss aus Pisse zu tragen.

Charles Bukowski buch Women

Variante: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Quelle: Women

Paulo Coelho Foto

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”
Hören Sie nicht auf die böswilligen Kommentare von Freunden, die niemals selbst Risiken eingehen und nur die Fehler anderer sehen können.

Paulo Coelho buch Elf Minuten

Quelle: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho Foto

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
Jeder, der etwas verloren hat, von dem er dachte, es gehöre ihm für immer, merkt endlich, dass nichts wirklich zu ihm gehört.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
So fuhren wir durch das kühler werdende Zwielicht weiter auf den Tod zu.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
Freiheit ist das, was wir mit dem tun, was uns angetan wird.

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Variante: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Shirley MacLaine Foto

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

Shirley MacLaine (1934) American actress

Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variante: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Edward Gibbon Foto

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

Vol. 1, Chap. 68. Compare: "On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons" (translated: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions"), Voltaire, Letter to M. le Riche. 1770; "J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (translated: "I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions"), De la Ferté to Anne of Austria.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
Er soll denken, daß ich mehr Manns bin, als ich bin, und ich werde es sein.

Ernest Hemingway buch The Old Man and the Sea

Quelle: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
Manchmal fühlte ich eine eindringliche Einsamkeit und spürte sie bei anderen - jungen Angestellten in der Abenddämmerung, wie sie die ergreifendsten Momente der Nacht und des Lebens verschwendeten.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Marcus Aurelius Foto
Stephen King Foto

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
Die Beschreibung beginnt in der Vorstellungskraft des Autors, sollte aber in der des Lesers enden.

Stephen King (1947) American author

Quelle: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Thomas Jefferson Foto

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Ich sage den Amerikanern zukünftiges Glück voraus, wenn sie verhindern können, dass die Regierung unter dem Vorwand, für sie zu sorgen, die Arbeit der Menschen verschwendet.

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Thomas Cooper (29 November 1802)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
Variante: If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
Alles worüber ich immer und immer wieder nachdachte, war, dass man nicht ewig leben kann.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
Das Leben ist eine Reise, kein Ziel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”
Ich weiß nicht, wer High Heels erfunden hat, aber alle Frauen schulden ihm viel.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Her Inspiration : Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful, and Have Fun (2008) by Mina Parker
Variante: I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
Ich bin ein Sklave meiner Gefühle, meiner Vorlieben, meines Hasses auf die Langeweile, auf die meisten meiner Wünsche.

F. Scott Fitzgerald buch This Side of Paradise

Quelle: This Side of Paradise

Richard Bach Foto
Jane Austen Foto

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
Gib einem Mädchen Bildung und führe sie ordentlich in die Welt ein, und in zehn von neun Fällen wird sie in der Lage sein, sich ohne weitere Zuwendungen von jemanden zu behaupten.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
Es ist ein großer Vorteil, nicht unter hart trinkenden Menschen zu trinken.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Jane Austen Foto

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
Oh, Lizzy! Mach irgend etwas anderes, statt ohne Zuneigung zu heiraten.

Jane Austen buch Stolz und Vorurteil

Quelle: Pride and Prejudice

Woody Allen Foto

“I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
Ich kann Wagner nicht so viel hören. Ich möchte Polen besetzen.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Robert T. Kiyosaki Foto

“Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.”
Den meisten Menschen ist nicht klar, dass es im Leben nicht darum geht, wie viel Geld man verdient, sondern darum, wie viel Geld man behält.

Robert T. Kiyosaki buch Rich Dad Poor Dad

Quelle: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
Drachen steigen am höchsten gegen den Wind - nicht mit ihm.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Variante: A kite flies against the wind, not with it.

Charles Bukowski Foto
W. Clement Stone Foto
P.G. Wodehouse Foto

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
Die Stimme der Liebe schien mich zu rufen, aber es war eine falsche Nummer.

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Quelle: Very Good, Jeeves!

Niccolo Machiavelli Foto

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
Jeder sieht, was du scheinst. Nur wenige fühlen, wie du bist.

Niccolo Machiavelli buch Der Fürst

Variant trans: Everybody sees what you seem, but few know what thou art.
Ch. 18
Variante: Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are
Quelle: The Prince (1513)
Kontext: Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

George Bernard Shaw Foto

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
Keine Liebe ist aufrichtiger als die Liebe zum Essen.

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

Quelle: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 23

Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
Sie würde sich verteidigen und sagen, dass Liebe, egal was auch immer, ein natürliches Talent sei. Sie würde sagen: Du wirst entweder geboren, wenn du weißt wie, oder du weißt es nie.

Gabriel García Márquez buch Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera

Quelle: Love in the Time of Cholera

Henry Van Dyke Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
Er weiß nichts; und er glaubt, alles zu wissen. Das deutet eindeutig auf eine politische Karriere hin.

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara

Quelle: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)

Stephen King Foto

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
Das war keine Tat Gottes. Das war ein Akt der puren menschlichen Fickerei.

Stephen King buch The Stand

Quelle: The Stand

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
Schlechte Zeiten besitzen einen wissenschaftlichen Wert. Sie bieten Gelegenheiten, die ein Lernender nicht verpassen würde.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
Ich will nicht nur Worte. Wenn das alles ist, was du für mich hast, solltest du besser gehen.

F. Scott Fitzgerald buch The Beautiful and Damned

Quelle: The Beautiful and Damned

Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Die Menschen fordern Redefreiheit als Ausgleich für die Gedankenfreiheit, die sie selten nutzen.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Andy Warhol Foto

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Er sagt, dass die Zeit alles ändern wird, aber in der Tat muss man es selbst ändern.

Andy Warhol buch The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Quelle: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 7: Time
Quelle: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Sören Kierkegaard Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
Eine Katze besitzt absolute emotionale Aufrichtigkeit: Menschen verbergen oft ihre Gefühle aus dem einen oder anderen Grund, eine Katze tut das nicht.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
John Cleese Foto

“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

BBC interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/11/20/john_cleese_die_another_day_interview.shtml on Die Another Day (20 November 2002)]

Salvador Dalí Foto

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

Quelle: The Clowns of God (1981), Ch. II (ellipses in original) <!-- p. 35 -->
This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.
Kontext: "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

George Gordon Byron Foto

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
Der große Gegenstand des Lebens ist die Empfindung, dass wir existieren, obwohl wir Schmerzen haben.

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Douglas Coupland Foto
Thich Nhat Hanh Foto

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Manchmal ist Ihre Freude die Quelle Ihres Lächelns, aber manchmal kann Ihr Lächeln die Quelle Ihrer Freude sein.

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Jane Austen Foto

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”
Ich kann mein Herz verloren haben, aber nicht meine Selbstbeherrschung.

Jane Austen buch Emma

Quelle: Emma

Guy De Maupassant Foto

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
Unsere Erinnerung ist eine vollkommenere Welt als das Universum: sie gibt denjenigen Leben zurück, die nicht mehr existieren.

Guy De Maupassant buch Suicides

"Suicides"

Jack Kerouac Foto

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
Ein Schmerz durchbohrte mein Herz, wie jedes Mal, wenn ich ein Mädchen sah, das ich liebte und das in dieser zu großen Welt in die entgegengesetzte Richtung ging.

Jack Kerouac buch Unterwegs

Variante: I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.
Quelle: On the Road

Henry Ford Foto

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
Hindernisse sind die schrecklichen Dinge, die Sie sehen, wenn Sie Ihre Augen vom Ziel abwenden.

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Jack Kerouac Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
Die schönste Erfahrung, die wir machen können, ist die geheimnisvolle. Es ist die grundlegende Emotion, die an der Wiege der wahren Kunst und der wahren Wissenschaft steht.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Quelle: The World As I See It

Victor Hugo Foto

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Lachen ist Sonnenschein, es vertreibt den Winter aus dem menschlichen Gesicht.

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Variante: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Quelle: Les Misérables

William Wordsworth Foto

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Quelle: The Excursion 1814

Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
John D. Rockefeller Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
Das Leben ist eine Vorbereitung auf die Zukunft; und die beste Vorbereitung für die Zukunft ist, zu leben, als gäbe es keine.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Schreiben Sie sich auf, dass jeder Tag der beste Tag im Jahr ist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Works and Days
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Jack Kerouac Foto

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”
Was ist vorrätig für mich in der Richtung, die ich nicht einschlagen werde?

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Paulo Coelho Foto

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Das Geheimnis des Lebens besteht jedoch darin, siebenmal zu fallen und achtmal aufzustehen.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Introduction, p. xi.
Quelle: The Alchemist (1988)
Kontext: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Jean Cocteau Foto

“Living is a horizontal fall.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Opium (1929)
Variante: Life is a horizontal fall.
Quelle: Opium: The Diary of His Cure

Lucille Ball Foto

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Variante: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Es gibt keine schlimmere Tyrannei, als jemanden zu zwingen, für etwas zu zahlen, das er nicht will, nur weil ihr glaubt, dass es gut für ihn wäre.

Robert A. Heinlein buch The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Quelle: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Stephen King Foto

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
Der Mann in Schwarz floh durch die Wüste, und der Revolvermann folgte ihm.

Stephen King buch The Gunslinger

Quelle: The Gunslinger

Lou Holtz Foto

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
Du bist weder geboren als Gewinner noch als Verlierer, aber als einer, der die Wahl hat.

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
Agatha Christie Foto

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
Wenn Sie Ihren Kopf in den Mund eines Löwen stecken, können Sie sich eines Tages nicht beschweren, wenn er ihn abbeißt.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Charles Baudelaire Foto

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
Ein Buch ist übrigens ein Garten, ein Obstgarten, ein Lagerhaus, eine Party, eine Gesellschaft, ein Ratgeber, eine Vielzahl von Ratgebern.

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Thornton Wilder Foto
Margaret Thatcher Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…”
Dem Patriotismus liegt die Überzeugung zugrunde, dass ein bestimmtes Land das Beste auf der Welt ist, weil man darin geboren wurden ...

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

The World (15 November 1893)
1890s

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”
Ich sorge mich nie wegen Tätigkeiten, sondern nur wegen Untätigkeit.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Winston Churchill (Author) and Richard Langworth (Editor) (28. Oktober 2008): Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations. New York: PublicAffairs (1st Edition), page 160. note: See also: 1940s. Passim. Martin Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Volume II: Never Surrender, May 1940-December 1940. London: Heinemann, New York: Norton, 1994, page xvi, where Sir Martin writes in his Preface: "Inefficiency, incompetence and negative attitudes roused his ire: I have indicated some examples of this in the Churchill index entry, under “rebukes by.” He did not take kindly to what he called “a drizzle of carping criticism,” or to those officials, military or civilian, who, as he expressed it, “failed to rise to the height of circumstances.” Among his injunctions to his Ministers were, “Don’t let this matter sleep,” and, “I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction.”" note: See also: In a letter, on page 1184 of the above work: Concerning “Operation Compass,” the first major British offensive in North Africa, Churchill wrote to General Dill on 7 December 1940: "If, with the situation as it is, General Wavell is only playing small, and is not hurling on his whole available forces with furious energy, he will have failed to rise to the height of circumstances. I never “worry” about action, but only about inaction." note: Source for all the aforementioned information: Richard M. Langworth (Senior fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian) (March 4, 2009): Churchill on Action vs. Inaction.
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Paulo Coelho Foto

“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”
Hasser sind verwirrte Bewunderer, die nicht verstehen können, warum alle anderen dich mögen.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variante: Haters are confused admirers who want to be like you.

Amy Tan Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
Nicht die Vergangenheit wiederholen? Aber natürlich kann man das.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Jim Morrison Foto

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
Setze dich deiner tiefsten Angst aus; Danach hat die Angst keine Kraft mehr und die Angst vor der Freiheit schwindet und verschwindet. Du bist frei.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Variante: Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Nehmen Sie das Tempo der Natur an: Ihr Geheimnis ist Geduld.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Elbert Hubbard Foto

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
Der letzte Beweis von Größe liegt darin, Kritik ohne Groll zu ertragen.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Nein, das ist der große Irrtum: die Weisheit alter Männer. Sie werden nicht weise. Sie werden vorsichtig.

Ernest Hemingway buch A Farewell to Arms

Quelle: A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
Verbessern heißt verändern. Perfekt sein heißt demnach, sich oft verändert zu haben.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Winston Churchill (June 23, 1925), His complete speeches, 1897–1963, edited by Robert Rhodes James, Chelsea House ed., vol. 4 (1922–1928), p. 3706. During a debate with Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden.
Often misquoted as: To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.
Early career years (1898–1929)

Albert Einstein Foto

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
Das einzige, was Sie unbedingt wissen müssen, ist der Standort einer Bibliothek.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Paulo Coelho Foto

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Wenn jemand nicht so ist, wie andere es wollen, werden die anderen wütend. Jeder scheint eine klare Vorstellung davon zu haben, wie andere Menschen ihr Leben führen sollen, aber keiner über seine eigenen.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Quelle: The Alchemist

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Die Welt zerbricht jeden, und nachher sind viele an den zerbrochenen Stellen stark.

Ernest Hemingway buch A Farewell to Arms

Quelle: A Farewell to Arms

Jane Austen Foto

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
Wenn ich nur sein Herz erkennen könnte, würde alles leichter werden.

Jane Austen buch Sense and Sensibility

Quelle: Sense and Sensibility

William Faulkner Foto

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
Ich fühle mich wie ein nasser Samen, der in der heißen blinden Erde wild ist.

William Faulkner buch As I Lay Dying

Quelle: As I Lay Dying

René Descartes Foto

“I think, therefore I am.”
Ich denke, also bin ich.

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Je pense, donc je suis.
Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)
Variante: I think, therefore I am.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
Die Erde lacht in Blumen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Paulo Coelho Foto

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
Wann immer Sie etwas erreichen wollen, halten Sie die Augen offen, konzentrieren Sie sich und stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie genau wissen, was Sie wollen. Niemand kann sein Ziel mit geschlossenen Augen treffen.

Paulo Coelho buch The Devil and Miss Prym

Quelle: The Devil and Miss Prym

Henry Miller Foto
Emily Dickinson Foto
Stephen R. Covey Foto

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
Jeder von uns bewacht ein Tor der Veränderung, das nur von innen geöffnet werden kann.

Stephen R. Covey buch The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Quelle: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Bob Dylan Foto

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
Kritisieren Sie nicht, was Sie nicht verstehen können.

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Confucius Foto

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
Sie können ein Buch nicht öffnen, ohne etwas zu lernen.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

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