Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011
https://citaty.net/
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe photo

“It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Anton Chekhov photo

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Pope Benedict XVI photo

“It is our weakness that calls forth the grace of God. You show your weakness, He gives us strength.”

Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church

Source: Movie The Two Popes, Pope Benedict as Anthony Hopkins

Pope Benedict XVI photo

“All dictatorships take away our freedom to choose. We both know that. Or reveal our own weaknesses.”

Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church

Source: Movie The Two Popes, Pope Benedict as Anthony Hopkins

Michael Bloomberg photo

“I am not smarter than anybody else but I can out work you – and my key to success for you, or anybody else is make sure you are the first one in there every day and the last one to leave. Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working.”

Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City

Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/08/bloomberg-bathroom-break-success-quote.html

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh photo

“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Source: At Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme in 2006, https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh photo

“Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Source: At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965. https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh photo

“Bits are beginning to drop off.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Source: On approaching his 90th birthday, 2011

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh photo

“Children go to school because their parents don't want them in the house.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Source: Prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013.

Timothy Ferriss photo

“If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific thing. 2) Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things”

Timothy Ferriss book Tools of Titans

Timothy Ferriss photo

“Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

Timothy Ferriss book Tools of Titans

Walter Isaacson photo

“Relativity is a simple concept. It asserts that the fundamental laws of physics are the same whatever your state of motion.”

Walter Isaacson book Einstein: His Life and Universe

Source: Book Einstein: His Life and Universe

“The unsolicited promise is one of the most reliable signals because it is nearly always of questionable motive.”

Gavin de Becker book The Gift of Fear

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world — an emotion.”

Alber Elbaz (1961–2021) Israeli fashion designer

Source: US Vogue, https://www.vogue.com/article/alber-elbaz-best-quotes

“If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.”

Alber Elbaz (1961–2021) Israeli fashion designer

Source: US Vogue, https://www.vogue.com/article/alber-elbaz-best-quotes

“Perfectionism is dangerous because there is nothing after it, just a museum.”

Alber Elbaz (1961–2021) Israeli fashion designer

Source: British Vogue, 2013, https://www.vogue.co.uk/video/watch/alber-elbaz