Martin Svoboda

Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
Napoleon Hill photo

“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Variante: The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
Origine: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Lewis Carroll photo

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Variante: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

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“A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.”

Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur

Though often attributed to Garvey, this statement first appears in Charles Siefert's 1938 pamphlet, The Negro's or Ethiopian's Contribution to Art.
Misattributed

Kuvempu photo

“In me is the sky, in me lies the earth.”

Kuvempu (1904–1994) Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker

A couplet he wrote in Kannada, before writing his first full poem in the language.
Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)

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“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=zY7FE9ZyDO0C&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PA79#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false. Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude&#x27;s electron theory of metals. <br class="br">1900s <br class="br">Variante: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

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John Rogers photo

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

John Rogers writer, comedian and producer from the United States

In an &quot;Ephemera&quot; blog post http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html<br>This also appears in Ch. 10 of The Value of Nothing (2010) by Raj Patel, who later acknowledged it was a borrowed joke in &quot;Citation Alert!&quot; http://rajpatel.org/2010/01/21/citation-alert/ (21 January 2010) at rajpatel.org.

Emil Zátopek photo

“Essentially, we distinguish ourselves from the rest. If you want to win something, run the 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.”

Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner

Attributed in &quot;Making a run at the Olympic dream&quot;, an unsigned article from The StarPhoenix, 9 May 2007, at canada.com (CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.) http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/sports/story.html?id=b111ee9e-182a-4cff-831a-f784cc7bb37e

Emil Zátopek photo

“Are you running out of breath? Go faster!”

Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner

Life credo

Emil Zátopek photo

“It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.”

Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner

Attributed in &quot;Citius, Altius, Fortius&quot; (&quot;Swifter, Higher, Stronger&quot;), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, 8 August 2008 (Galadari Printing and Publishing Co.) http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/weekend/2008/August/weekend_August25.xml&amp;section=weekend&amp;col=

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„Buď sám sebou. Svět uctívá originál.“

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) francouzský básník, prozaik, dramatik, návrhář, boxerský manažer a filmař