Martin Svoboda
Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
“It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Variante: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Origine: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
Michael E. Porter (1947) American engineer and economist
Origine: What is strategy?, 1996, p. 70
“Better to put things at the worst at first, and reserve the best for a surprise.”
Jules Verne libro The Mysterious Island
Mieux vaut mettre les choses au pis tout de suite, répondit l’ingénieur, et ne se réserver que la surprise du mieux.
Part I, ch. IX
The Mysterious Island (1874)
Contesto: Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise.
“Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.”
Charles Baudelaire libro I fiori del male
Ne cherchez plus mon cœur; des monstres l’ont mangé. <br class="br">"Causerie" [Conversation] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/Causerie <br class="br">Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857) <br class="br">Origine: Les Fleurs du Mal
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Variante: I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
Misattributed
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Contesto: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist