Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 3

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

Ottmar is a big coach and a good gentleman. I don't know if I'm a young Schweinsteiger; I'm another player. I am Granit Xhaka.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

My brain can form thoughts that come out through my mouth. The problem is sometimes I stumble the words because I speak five different languages - we know all that - so the thing is, I like to speak the language that everybody speaks all around the world, that the WWE Universe loves... that's the language of wrestling that I do in the ring.

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

If I show you pictures of my grandmother, what you see is these eyes - cat eyes - and high cheekbones.

I let my actions do the talking, and that might take a little bit longer for people to see.

Kinski was fascinating. To me he was always very nice and he never attacked me. He liked to show his power by sometimes quarrelling with people on production. I adored him as an actor, but not always as a person.

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

I was born in Kosovo and grew up in Switzerland.

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

At my restaurant, we made a dessert called 'milk and honey.' It's milk ice cream that looks like a snowball, and then you cut into it, and honey runs out.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

People in planes said: 'Ah, no need to be afraid, because with you here, nothing can happen. Now we are safe.' Or a mother said to her child: 'Look, there's your guardian angel.' They weren't joking. That was an amazing feeling. I loved that. Because that means much more than people saying, 'You are a very good actor,' or 'I love your work.'

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.

It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.