Freimut Schmidt Quotes & Sayings

Four Ingredients Plus Three Generations The recipe for an institution, then, is four ingredients plus three generations: artifacts, arenas, rules and roles that are passed on to the founding generation's children's children. Fail to follow this recipe by neglecting the transmission over generations and you are likely to leave little of cultural significance behind - at best, a few mysterious artifacts and hazy, nostalgic memories. Likewise, fail to follow this recipe by neglecting one of the four essential ingredients, and enduring impact is equally unlikely, because only the fourfold combination of artifacts, arenas, rules and roles is strong enough to sustain a cultural innovation through time. — Andy Crouch

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman

Look upon the world with loving eyes and the reflection everyone sees will contain love. — Bryant McGill

The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently. — John F. Akers

Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist. — Alexandre Dumas

For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers. — Pete Hamill

Gradually, we have become each other's weather. — Paul Zweig

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees. — Pablo Neruda

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. — Wm. Paul Young

We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women. — Jessie Daniel Ames

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history. — Christopher Bollen

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos. — Jane Mayer

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. — Conan O'Brien