“My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingKindI CanWholeJobsChallengesKnow HowSucceedGive MeWhole LifeWelcomeDoubtedDoubters Author:Dwyane Wade
“Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.” IfsShouldLittlesEnoughPhilosophyWholeLightCertainAnswersPoorBehindsLordNiceEventsProductsSucceedDegreesDearOpeningImmortalityArroganceSinnerQuantityMetaphysicsBoastWretchedEmbarrassmentConcealedTangledPluckBundlesSpiritualismLord GodPharisees Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.” WellsMayArtWholeVirtueSucceedAbsolutesFoundationGood ThingsIncludingCalmJustifyConstructionDocumentsOrganizeConstructsCultivatingCalm Down Author:Paul Klee
“I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project - it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.” NeedsWritingIdeasEndsWholeMomentsFactsWantedHateEconomySucceedProjectsI HateAbsolutesNightmareRitualNew Projects Author:Slavoj Žižek
“If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.” IfsWorldSoulEnoughWholePastSucceedEmbraceWhole WorldGenerousProvinces Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C
“We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.” IfsWholeSuccessCareersPlanetsBuddhismSucceedRidiculous Author:Frederick Lenz