“We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.”
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
Quotes about making page 3
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
“You don't make art, you find it”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: The Other Side of the Story
“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
Martin Heidegger book Contributions to Philosophy
Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) [Beitrage Zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)], notes of 1936–1938, as translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (1989)
Context: Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Those who idolize "facts" never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light.
Context: Those in the crossing must in the end know what is mistaken by all urging for intelligibility: that every thinking of being, all philosophy, can never be confirmed by "facts," ie, by beings. Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Those who idolize "facts" never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light. They are also meant not to notice this; for thereupon they would have to be at a loss and therefore useless. But idolizers and idols are used wherever gods are in flight and so announce their nearness.
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Response, after being asked why he went ahead and performed in the concert "Smile Jamaica", two days after he, his wife and manager were wounded inside his home after an assault by unknown gunmen, thought to be politically motivated (5 December 1976), as quoted in Bob Marley The Father of Music (2010) by Jean-Pierre Hombasch, p. 5
Variant: The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”
Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
“Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.”
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) Swedish female writer
Shigeru Miyamoto (1952) Japanese video game designer and producer
Source: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/175791/A_free_tip_from_Miyamoto_Make_your_first_level_last.php
“Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
<nowiki>Linus Torvalds on Twitter</nowiki>, Torvalds, Linus, 2013-01-29, 2016-07-26 https://twitter.com/linus__torvalds/status/296333371393597440, <br class="br">2010s, 2013
Osamu Tezuka (1928–1989) Japanese cartoonist and animator
Quoted in Helen McCarthy, Osamu Tezuka: God of manga , translated by Fabio Deotto, Edizioni BD, 2010, back cover.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
As quoted in Albert Speer's diary entry for 26 December 1950 recalling a conversation with Hitler in January 1943, published in Spandau: The Secret Diary (2000), p. 167
1940s
“Well, then,” said Callias, “take a place; for the guests, though well fed, as you observe, on seriousness, are perhaps rather ill supplied with laughter.”
Symposium, 1.11-13
Bill Skarsgård (1990) Swedish actor
Interview: Bill Skarsgård http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/bill-skarsgard-1#_ (June 5, 2017)
“Success makes people - people not related to you or to your field - like to take a dig at you.”
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi
“I am a showman by profession…and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
As quoted in Philip B. Kunhardt, et alm P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman (1995), ISBN 0-679-43574-3, p. vi
“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
Scott Cawthon (1971) American independent video game designer
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
Henry VIII of England (1491–1547) King of England from 1509 until 1547
Last speech to parliament, December 24, 1545. <br class="br">English Church History from the Death of King Henry VII to the Death of Archbishop Parker, Rev. Alfred Plummer, 1905, Edinburg, T. & T. Clark, p. 85. http://books.google.com/books?id=ofMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA85&dq=%22+you+be+permitted+to+read+holy+scriptures%22
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Date unknown, but appears on Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!.
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
Xenophon book Cyropaedia
Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC
“The way you make me feel,
You really turn me on,
You knock me off my feet,
My lonely days are gone.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
The Way You Make Me Feel
Bad (1987)
Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916) Russian mystic
Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
You'll Be Gone, written by Elvis Presley, Red West and Charlie Hodge (1961)
Song lyrics
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
Bk. 3, ch. 2; pp. 88-89.
Anabasis
Context: On making prisoners of our generals, they expected that we should perish from want of direction and order. It is incumbent, therefore, on our present commanders to be far more vigilant than our former ones, and on those under command to be far more orderly, and more obedient to their officers, at present than they were before…On the very day that such resolution is passed, they will see before them ten thousand Clearchuses instead of one.
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Translation by Lionel Giles
Source: The Art of War, Chapter IV · Disposition of the Army
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
1850 - 1870
Context: My dear Frédéric Bazille, I ask myself what you can be doing in Paris during fine weather, for I suppose that it must also be very fine there. Here my dear fellow, it is is charming, and I discover every day always beautiful things. It is enough to become mad [fou], so much do I have the desire to do it all, my head is cracking. Damn it, here it is the sixteenth, put aside your cliques and your claques, and come spend a couple of weeks here, it would be the best thing that you could do, because in Paris it cannot be very easy to work.
This very day, I still have a month to stay in; furthermore my sketches are becoming finished, I have even set to work additionally [remis] on some others. In sum, I am content enough with my stay here, even though my studies are very far from what I would wish. It is decidedly frightfully difficult to make something complete in all respects, and I think that there are scarcely any but those who content themselves with the approximate. Very well, my dear fellow, I want to struggle, scrape, start over again [recommencer], because one can do what one sees and understands, and it seems to me, when I see nature, that I am going to do it all, write it all out, but them go try to do it.... when one is on the job..
All this proves that one must only think about this. It is by force of observation and reflection that one finds. So let us grind away and grind away constantly. Are you making any progress? Yes, I am sure of it, but what I am sure of is that you do not work enough and not in the right way. It is not with carefree guys like your Villa and others that you will be able to work. It would be better all alone, and yet, all alone there are plenty of things that one cannot make out. In the end all of this is terrible, and it is a rough task.
... It is frightening what I see in my head.
“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
“I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html
“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Source: Song Man in the Mirror
Context: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc
Context: But now, let’s give each other a chance.
It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric.
To lower the temperature.
To see each other again.
To listen to each other again.
To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy.
We are not enemies. We are Americans.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 19, "The illusion of understanding", page 201 (ISBN 9780141033570).
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Variant: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
No Exit (1944)
Variant: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions
John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
As quoted in "Hand Book : Caution and Counsels" in The Common School Journal Vol. 5, No. 24 (15 December 1843) by Horace Mann, p. 371
Context: This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Source: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
“It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
“They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: A Thousand Mornings
“Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911) American writer