Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 11

People really seemed to think of me as a guardian angel. People would bring their children before me for a blessing or something.

For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Rugby and wrestling are sports for real athletes.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.

Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it's about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

While government clearly plays the major role in fighting poverty through policies on things such as education, tax, and trade, business creates the wealth that matters.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

I'm a huge fan of Don Leo Jonathan. I love that era of wrestling.

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

I don't need to come back to Everest.

Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.

In summer 1961, Rose-Marie Egger became my wife, and her stabilizing influence has kept me on an even keel ever since. Our honeymoon trip led us to the United States where I spent two post-doc years working on thermal conductivity of type-II superconductors and metals in the group of Professor Bernie Serin at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

People hide behind fake names to tweet negative comments, and I hate that. If you have something to say, own up to it.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

I like to walk. I like to read. I like to watch people.

We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again. On the contrary, we witness a catalogue of atrocities every day in wars across the globe.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

It is good to get the racing closer to the spectators.

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Nobody is born evil.

It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.

If we call ourselves the preeminent wealth management firm globally, then it would be impossible not to be a strong player in the biggest market in the world, the Americas.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.