Joachimsthal Quotes & Sayings

I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.' — Elizabeth A. Johnson

Our choices decide our direction and carve a path for our personal lives and our careers. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger. — Ricky Schroder

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill. — John Scalzi

Toward 1175 rich veins of copper, silver, and gold were found in the Erz Gebirge (i.e., ore mountains); Freiberg, Goslar, and Annaberg became the centers of a medieval "gold rush"; and from the little town of Joachimsthal came the word joachimsthaler - meaning coins mined there - and, by inevitable shortening, the German and English words thaler and dollar. — Will Durant

["Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery; — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Global conditions that prevail at the time of decision. Global conditions
provide constraints and opportunities for international decision making and
color the degree to which both an actor's internal attributes and individual
leader preferences can account for the choices made.
n Internal, or domestic, characteristics of the transnational actor. The internal
characteristics - such as wealth, military might, and public opinion - of the
transnational actor making the decision heavily shape the range of choices open
to the individual decision maker.
n Characteristics of individuals who are the decision-making leaders. The
individual values, personalities, beliefs, intelligence, and prior experiences of
the leaders of transnational actors are important as well because they predispose
them to take certain kinds of positions on global issues.
This — Charles W. Kegley Jr.

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. — Robert Henri