Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: November 15, 1741 - January 2, 1801

Topics

GreatHeroBoldDifficultiesSee

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

Jim Rash

LearningJourneyWritingYouBigger

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

Steve Garvey

SportsNameBackNewOldDifference

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Ron Conway

BuildingInternetEnjoySaidNever

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Ron Perlman

TimeImaginationRealityCameraYou

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Rowan Williams

LifeFindGoLet GoPreciousOur

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Luis von Ahn

HumanityWantMoreHumanWastedGet

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

Judy Blume

GodGratefulMeYouBe Grateful

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.

Judy Gold

CookingThinkPressureYouHard

Any obsession is dangerous.

Christina Ricci

DangerousObsessionAny

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Chuck Schumer

ChangeYouChangesThingsWarfare

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Peter Singer

ChildrenTreatDieEasyWhoMillion

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Thomas Haden Church

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