"It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature."

-- Tibor Fischer

#Senior Quotes #Strong Quotes #Attitude Quotes

“If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal â€˜em. Take those hands.”
“When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.”
“Asset management CEOs globally are looking at their business models. They're looking at costs, they're looking at making their businesses more efficient, because they're seeing revenues under pressure all over the world.”
“Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”

Source : "A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Aside". Book by Delbert D. Thiessen, p. 18, 1998.
“I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.”
“The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously.”
“We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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