Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 9

Before, I was a little bit skeptical about women coaching, because I don't know if maybe they are different, and not every woman can be strict to take the best out of you. I was worried about this, but so far I see that some women can be much stronger than men, actually.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

I always like to do things the right way.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

It's very challenging to get the right balance between relaxing and working.

If you believe in yourself, you can beat anyone.

I don't think there is any player who has everything coming easy, you know?

I think English is very important for tennis players. To be on the tour, it's much more easier if you speak English. So that's why I knew that I have to improve my English.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.

I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.

I studied what the Germans call the Naturwissenschaften, the natural sciences. Everything from biology to geology. How the clouds are formed, how the animals live, and what makes the rocks. So I know about nature. Period.

I don't want to change; I just want to be like everyone else. I'm nothing special.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part of the landscape, part of the rock.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!

I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found out that in order to be faster over 10,000m, he ran 5,000m many times in training. And to be better at 5,000m, he ran 1,500m many times. And to be better at 1,500m, he ran four times 400m in training.

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

I feel energized walking off stage.

I live in a province where we have the cheapest electricity in North America - indeed, in the Western world - but all of it is perfectly renewable because we have beautiful Manitoba Hydro. Every few tens of kilometers, we can put a river dam. Bingo. One gigawatt here. One gigawatt here.

The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.