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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Topics

Fly Lights Want Secure Most

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

Good Control Impossible Better You

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.

Love Me Book Better Progressive Guy

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

Love Listen Pipes I Love Piper

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Robert Metcalfe

Good Persuasion Authority Resources

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

School High School More Jewish High

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Yourself Risks Push You More Take

My father was my hero when I was still a boy.

Father Hero Boy Still

Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.

Myself Me Champion Legend Ring Kid

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Words Poetry Thoughts Burn Breathe

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

Culture Trying You Movies See Those

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

Life Art Perspective Creating Living

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

Mariella Frostrup

Positive Passion Best Soul Mind

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