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Means Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find…
- To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love…
- Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of…
- Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of…
- Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them…
- To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
- Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms…
- In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange