Ulrich Beck Quotes

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

Ulrich Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 15, 1944 - January 1, 2015

Topics

LifeTechnologyMyselfMeThinkNew

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.

Max Winkler

YourselfHappyThinkFeelYouFind

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

John McEnroe

SportsWhiteTennisLikeWanted

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

PositiveWorkNegativeYouWayOut

I have the impression that the women around me are like me - smaller, taller, fatter, thinner - but in fact, we are all the same.

Sonia Rykiel

WomenMeSameImpressionLikeFact

I can't live off the ego.

Steven Tyler

LiveEgoOff

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

Tom Hodgkinson

DayWeatherToo MuchNapHotHuman

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Michael Leunig

ReligionMeNeverHad

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald Knuth

ScienceArtEnoughUnderstandWell

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

Christopher Eccleston

PeopleGrowing UpTheatreFeelGo

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

Apollonius of Tyana

CourageTimePhilosophyRight Time

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle

MenPoliticsDemocracyProperty

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

BeachBirdsBelieveForestBoy

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