Lidiya Ginzburg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.
-- Lidiya Ginzburg

#Meaningful #Important #Vacuums
Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.
-- Lidiya Ginzburg

#Death #Simple #Mind
A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.
-- Lidiya Ginzburg

#Circles #People #Goal
You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.
-- Lidiya Ginzburg

#Hero #Tears #Trying

The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
Freedom of speech implies the world isnâ€™t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.
Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I`m getting all these offers for work, I`m very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.

Lidiya Ginzburg famous quotes

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