Classement Quotes & Sayings

It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya. — Robert Svoboda

I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything. — Cassandra Clare

A person finds it distasteful to hear his life recounted with a different interpretation from his own. — Milan Kundera

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them. — Donald Norman

Look up at the sky once a day. — Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun? — Idries Shah

Today, we have more information than ever, but less wisdom; more talk, but less listening; more things in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example), and less in the intellectual storeroom (that would be knowledge). — Cal Thomas

I can't re-define music every week! — Arthur Baker

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world. — Jennifer Weiner

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are. — John Kenneth Galbraith

In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth. — Thich Thien-An

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy. — H.L. Mencken

In the future, the number of languages being spoken will not matter. You could host a dinner party with eight different languages, and the voice your ear will always be whispering the one language you want to hear. — Alec J. Ross

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus. — Queen Latifah

Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it ... psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the family. It involves a psychological adaptation of family life to military or industrial methods, supervision of family life, and training family life for military or industrial service. Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern. Technique, which is destroying all other civilizations, is more than a simple mechanism: it's a whole civilization in itself. — Jacques Ellul