Tetsuro Watsuji Quotes & Sayings

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason. — Rene Descartes

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly. — Marissa Mayer

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no. — Rollo May

When the character is lacking in purity, when sin has become a part of the character, it has a bewitching power that is equal to the intoxicating glass of liquor. — Ellen G. White

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet. — Kristi Yamaguchi

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare! — Georges Danton

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. — Learned Hand

Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws. — H.P. Lovecraft

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa. — Lloyd Kaufman

Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter. — Srikumar Rao

The blazing fire consumed all. No one got out alive. And — Lisa Genova

Camilla he tormented simply because she was a girl. In some ways she was his more vulnerable target - through no fault of her own, but simply because in Greekdom, generally speaking, women are lesser creatures, better seen than heard. This prevailing sentiment among the Argives is so pervasive that it lingers in the bones of the language itself; I can think of no better illustration of this than the fact that in Greek grammar, one of the very first axioms I learned is that men have friends, women have relatives, and animals have their own kind. — Donna Tartt

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it. — Edwin Catmull