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Barack Obama foto

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Změna nepřijde, pokud budeme čekat na nějakou osobu nebo na nějakou jinou dobu. My jsme ti, na které čekáme. My jsme tou změnou, kterou hledáme.

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html
2008

Oscar Wilde foto

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Vždy odpouštějme svým nepřátelům, nic je nedokáže víc rozzuřit.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Varianta: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.

Aristotle foto

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”
Moudří mluví, když mají co říci; hloupí, protože musí něco říct.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Sophia Loren foto

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.

Rumi foto

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.”

Mnohé z chyb, které vidíš u druhých, milý čtenáři, jsou odrazem tvé vlastní povahy.

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

Rumi Daylight (1990)

Ian Fleming foto

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Nebudu marnit své dny snahou prodloužit je. Svůj čas plně využiji.

Ian Fleming kniha You Only Live Twice

Zdroj: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit. Fleming is quoting Jack London directly.

Emil M. Cioran foto

“When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.”
Když víte, že nic není skutečné, nechápete, proč byste se měli namáhat s dokazováním.

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

Emil M. Cioran foto

“We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?”
Říkával jsi, že musíme žít, jako bychom nikdy neměli zemřít. Copak nevíš, že tak žijí všichni, včetně těch, kteří jsou posedlí smrtí?

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Warren Buffett citát: “You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”
Warren Buffett foto

“You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”
Nemůžete uzavřít dobrý obchod se špatným člověkem.

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/12/02/23-quotes-from-warren-buffett-on-life-and-generosity/ "23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity" forbes.com (02 December 2013)
Quotes from the press

Laozi foto

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.”
Když to necháte být, všechno se vyřeší. Svět vyhrávají ti, kteří to nechávají být. Ale když se snažíte a snažíte, svět je více než vítězství.

Laozi kniha Tao Te Ching

Zdroj: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955)

Seneca the Younger foto

“For no man is free who is a slave to his body.”
Neboť žádný člověk není skutečně svobodný, pokud je otrokem svého těla.

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCII: On the Happy Life

Alexander the Great citát: “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
Alexander the Great foto

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
Nic není nemožné pro toho, kdo se snaží.

Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon

On taking charge of an attack on a fortress, in Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties : A Book of Inspiration (1896) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 55

Gianni Agnelli foto

“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”
Mám rád vítr, protože si ho nemůžete koupit.

Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman

Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com

Grigori Perelman foto

“If the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.”
Pokud jsou důkazy správné, není nutné žádné další uznání.

Grigori Perelman (1966) Russian mathematician

[David S. Richeson, Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology, http://books.google.com/books?id=KUYLhOVkaV4C&pg=PA285, 8 March 2012, Princeton University Press, 1-4008-3856-8, 285]

Tupac Shakur foto

“Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.”
Posuzujte člověka podle jeho činů od začátku do konce. Neberte si kousek mého života nebo písničku z mé tvorby a neříkejte, že o tomhle mluvím, jen proto, že jste si jistí, že to víte lépe.

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Socrates foto

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Nejlepším způsobem, jak žít na tomto světě se ctí, je být tím, co předstíráme, že jsme.

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

No findable citation to Socrates. Found ascribed to Socrates in Stephen Covey (1992), Principle Centered Leadership (1990) p. 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=w4zCIPZrniQC&pg=PA51&dq=%22be+what+we+pretend+to+be%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyvZnCg5HKAhUU5mMKHQIIAIgQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22be%20what%20we%20pretend%20to%20be%22&f=false.
Misattributed

Jim Carrey foto

“Communication, hardest thing in the world.”
Komunikace - nejtěžší věc na světě.

Jim Carrey (1962) Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer

Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act (1991)
Kontext: Communication, hardest thing in the world. Y'know, I can look at you guys, I can communicate to you all night, but, one-on-one, I'm terrible. It's just, there's certain things about communicating that really bother me. Like whenever I meet somebody new I say, "Hi! How are you!" Most of the time when people hear that they'll say, "Good! And yourself?", or "Fine! Thank you very much!" But sometimes they like to surprise you, "I've got no dream, man! I'm all dead inside!"

Arthur Miller foto

“I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.”
Myslím, že je chybou hledat naději mimo sebe.

Arthur Miller After the Fall

After the Fall (1964)
Kontext: I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. One day the house smells of fresh bread, the next of smoke and blood. One day you faint because the gardener cuts his finger off, within a week you're climbing over corpses of children bombed in a subway. What hope can there be if that is so? I tried to die near the end of the war. The same dream returned each night until I dared not to go to sleep and grew quite ill. I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps I could sleep. And I bent to its broken face, and it was horrible … but I kissed it. I think one must finally take one's life in one's arms.

Erwin Schrödinger foto

“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness.”
I když si myslím, že život může být výsledkem náhody, nemyslím si to o vědomí.

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist

As quoted in The Observer (11 January 1931); also in Psychic Research (1931), Vol. 25, p. 91
Kontext: Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Keanu Reeves foto

“You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.”
Pokud nejste šťastní, musíte změnit svůj život a probudit se, pokud věci nejdou tak, jak chcete.

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
Billy Wilder foto

“You’re only as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.”
Jste jen tak dobří, jako nejlepší věc kterou jste kdy udělali.

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
Andrew Biersack foto

“Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember you are not alone.”
Žij svůj život. Poslouchej svou hudbu příliš nahlas, buďte tak blázniví a 'odlišní', jak chcete. Vždy mějte na paměti, že nejste sami.

Andrew Biersack (1990) American singer-songwriter
Charbel Makhlouf foto

“Their buildings rise, their morality sinks. Their worldly goods increase, their values diminish. Their speeches multiply, their prayers grow scarce…. An edifice based on man may well rise, but it ends up crushing him.”
Jejich budovy rostou, jejich morálka klesá. Jejich světské statky rostou, jejich hodnoty klesají. Jejich řeči se množí, jejich modlitby jsou vzácné. Stavba založená na člověku může dobře růst, ale nakonec ho rozdrtí.

Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint

Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)

Epictetus foto

“People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.”
Lidé jsou podivní, nechtějí ani žít ani zemřít.

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
Buď vy řídíte den, nebo den řídí vás.

Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American motivational speaker
Trevor Noah foto
Edgar Allan Poe foto

“If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
Pokud vám báseň neroztrhala duši, nezažili jste poezii.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Laozi foto

“Silence is a source of great strength.”
Mlčení je zdrojem velké síly.

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Daisaku Ikeda foto

“If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.”
Díváme-li se na svět s láskou k životu, svět nám odhalí svou krásu.

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer
Zig Ziglar foto

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Jsi jediná osoba na světě, která může používat tvé schopnosti.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Daisaku Ikeda foto

“If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor.”
Když dnes prohraješ, zítra vyhraješ. V tomto nekonečném duchu výzvy je srdce vítěze.

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer
Rajneesh foto

“It is very easy to follow your parents,
it is very easy to follow your teachers,
it is very easy to follow the society,
it is very easy to be obedient --

to be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult.

But growth comes the hard way.”

Je velmi snadné následovat své rodiče, je velmi snadné následovat své učitele, je velmi snadné následovat společnost, je velmi snadné být poslušný... být vzpurný, být samostatný, je velmi obtížné. Ale růst přichází těžkou cestou.

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Mwanandeke Kindembo foto

“I always encourage self-taught before all other methods. Otherwise, we will end up filling our minds with the opinions of others.”
Vždycky jsem podporoval samostudium před všemi ostatními metodami. Jinak bychom si nakonec zaplnili hlavu názory druhých.

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Mwanandeke Kindembo foto

“The fact that you can impose democracy on other nations is already an undemocratic approach.”
Už to, že můžete vnucovat demokracii jiným národům, je nedemokratický přístup.

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Jesus foto

“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
Nesuďte podle vzhledu, ale suďte spravedlivým rozsudkem.

Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity

NASB, John 7:24
Variant translation: Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. (NIV)
Variants of major statements

Napoleon Hill foto

“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
Nečekejte, nikdy nenastane ten "správný čas". Začněte tam, kde jste, a pracujte s nástroji, které máte k dispozici - lepší nástroje přijdou postupně.

Napoleon Hill kniha Think and Grow Rich

Varianta: Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Zdroj: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 127
Kontext: Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Mark Twain foto

“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.”
Každé místo má své výhody - nebe klima a peklo společnost.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Bob Dylan foto

“But to live outside the law, you must be honest.”
Pokud však chcete žít mimo zákon, musíte být čestní.

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Absolutely Sweet Marie
Varianta: But to live outside the law, you must be honest.
Zdroj: da Absolutely Sweet Marie, n.° 11

Pablo Picasso foto

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Akce je základním klíčem k úspěchu.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Harriet Tubman foto

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Každý velký sen začíná u snílka. Vždy mějte na paměti, že máte v sobě sílu, trpělivost a vášeň dosáhnout hvězd a změnit svět.

Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
Nikola Tesla foto

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
Kontext: The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

André Malraux foto

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
Člověk není tím, čím si myslí, že je, ale tím, co skrývá.

André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”
Jediné, co potřebujete, je plán, mapa cesty a odvaha jít dál k cíli.

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker
Sören Kierkegaard foto

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Život může být pochopen jen pohledem nazpět, ale prožíván musí být směrem kupředu.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Varianta: Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.

Martin Luther foto

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..”
Každý muž musí o samotě vykonat dvě věci; musí si ujasnit svou vlastní víru a své vlastí umírání.

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Theodore Roosevelt foto

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Udělejte co můžete, s tím co máte, tam kde jste.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Ch. IX : Outdoors and Indoors, p. 336; the final statement "quoted by Squire Bill Widener" as well as variants of it, are often misattributed to Roosevelt himself.
Variant: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Attributed to Roosevelt in Conquering an Enemy Called Average (1996) by John L. Mason, Nugget # 8 : The Only Place to Start is Where You Are. <!-- The Military Quotation Book, Revised and Expanded: More than 1,200 of the Best Quotations About War, Leadership, Courage, Victory, and Defeat (2002) by James Charlton -->
Varianta: Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
Kontext: There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone; but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. And as for a life deliberately devoted to pleasure as an end — why, the greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing. There is a bit of homely philosophy, quoted by Squire Bill Widener, of Widener's Valley, Virginia, which sums up one's duty in life: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are."

Ernest Hemingway foto

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
Zbabělci umírají tisíckrát, ale stateční jen jednou.

Ernest Hemingway kniha A Farewell to Arms

Zdroj: A Farewell to Arms

Neale Donald Walsch foto

“If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”
Pokud chcete to nejlepší, co svět nabízí, nabídněte světu to nejlepší.

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer
Stephen Hawking foto

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
Jsme jen pokročilé plemeno opic na menší planetě velmi průměrné hvězdy. Můžeme však pochopit Vesmír. To z nás dělá něco velmi zvláštního.

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)

Marilyn Monroe foto

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
Jsem sobecká, netrpělivá a trochu nejistá. Dělám chyby, jsem neovladatelná a někdy je těžké mě snést. Ale jestli mě nezvládneš v mých nejhorších chvílích, tak si mě rozhodně nezasloužíš v těch nejlepších.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”
Ti, kteří tančí, se zdají býti šílení pro ty, kteří hudbu neslyší.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".

Friedrich Dürrenmatt foto

“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”
Bez tolerance se náš svět promění v peklo.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) Swiss author and dramatist
John Lennon foto

“It's weird not to be weird.”
Je zvláštní nebýt zvláštní.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
George Orwell foto

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
Nejúčinnějším způsobem, jak zničit lidi, je popřít a zničit vlastní chápání jejich historie.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

This is often attributed to George Orwell book 1984. We cannot find it inside. Perharps this is post-mortem paraphrase of his quote "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past".

Ernest Hemingway foto

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Štěstí u inteligentních lidí je tou nejméně často věcí, s jakou jsem se kdy setkal.

Ernest Hemingway kniha The Garden of Eden

Marita in Ch. 11
Zdroj: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Maya Angelou foto

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
Touha dosáhnout hvězd je ambiciózní. Touha dosáhnout srdcí je moudrá.

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Rabindranath Tagore foto

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
Pokud pláčete, protože slunce odešlo z vašeho života, vaše slzy vám budou bránit ve spatření hvězd.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Napoleon Hill foto

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
Začátkem všech úspěchů je touha. Pamatujte si to! Slabá touha přinese slabé výsledky, tak jako malý ohýnek vydá málo tepla.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Zdroj: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Mark Twain foto

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
Vrásky by měly pouze naznačovat, kde býval úsměv.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Vincent Van Gogh foto

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
Je dobré milovat mnoho věcí, protože v tom spočívá skutečná síla, a kdokoli miluje mnoho, vykonává mnoho a dokáže mnoho, a to, co se děje v lásce, je dobře vykonáno.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Quote of Vincent's letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 3 April 1878; a cited in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 1872-1886 (1927) Constable & Co
Variant: Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 483
1870s
Kontext: If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

Emily Dickinson foto

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Ráno bez tebe je zmenšený úsvit.

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Angelina Jolie foto

“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”
Když ze sebe udělám hlupáka, koho to zajímá? Nebojím se toho, jak mě kdo vnímá.

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
Kurt Cobain foto

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.”
Drogy jsou ztrátou času. Ničí vaši paměť, sebeúctu a vše, co k ní patří.

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

As quoted in Rolling Stone (1992-04-16).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Kontext: All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against [them].

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Nic nemůže být milováno nebo nenáviděno, pokud to není nejprve pochopeno.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Charlie Chaplin foto

“Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
Život je krásná, velkolepá věc, dokonce i pro medúzy.

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Calvero's answer to Terry's question: "What is there to fight for?" in Limelight (1952)
Kontext: Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.

Emily Dickinson citát: “Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson foto

“Forever is composed of nows.”
Věčnost se skládá z dnešních dní.

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Arthur Schopenhauer foto

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Každý člověk vnímá hranice svého vlastního zorného pole jako hranice světa.

Arthur Schopenhauer kniha Parerga and Paralipomena

"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
Varianta: Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Zdroj: Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

Simone Weil foto
Viktor E. Frankl foto

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
Naší největší svobodou je svoboda zvolit si svůj postoj.

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Michelangelo Buonarroti foto

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
Největším nebezpečím pro většinu z nás není to, že náš cíl je příliš vysoko a my jej mineme, nýbrž fakt, že je příliš nízko a my na něj dosáhneme.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

Attributed without citation in Ken Robinson, The Element (2009), p. 260. Widely attributed to Michelangelo since the late 1990s, this adage has not been found before 1980 when it appeared without attribution in E. C. McKenzie, Mac's giant book of quips & quotes.
Disputed
Varianta: The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Rabindranath Tagore foto

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Moře nemůžete překonat pouze tím, že budete stát a dívat se na vodu.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Albert Schweitzer foto

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
Někdy naše světlo zhasne, ale při setkání se s druhou lidskou bytostí, se znovu zapálí.

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Jean De La Fontaine foto

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
Přátelství je stín večera, který se zvětšuje se zapadajícím sluncem života.

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
William Shakespeare foto

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
Jeden se může usmívat a usmívat, a přesto být padouchem.

Zdroj: Hamlet

Bob Marley foto

“You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time”
Občas můžete oblbovat některé lidi, ale nemůžete oblbovat pořád, všechny lidi.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Johnny Depp foto

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”
Kdyby někdo ublížil mé rodině, kamarádovi nebo někomu, koho miluji, tak bych je snědl. Mohl bych skončit ve vězení na 500 let, ale snědl bych je.

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
William Shakespeare foto

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
Někteří se velcí narodí, jiní si velikost dobudou a jiným se velikost musí vnutit.

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Malvolio, Act II, scene v.
Varianta: Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
Zdroj: Twelfth Night (1601)

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
Kdo opravdu ví, nemá příležitost křičet.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
A.A. Milne foto

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
Sníme abychom nemuseli být dlouho jeden bez druhého. Pokud o sobe vzájemně sníme, můžeme být neustále spolu.

A.A. Milne kniha Winnie-the-Pooh

Zdroj: Winnie-the-Pooh

Will Durant foto

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Věda je organizované poznání. Moudrost je organizovaný život.

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Zdroj: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

William Shakespeare foto

“What's done cannot be undone.”
Co se stalo, nelze vrátit zpět.

Varianta: What's done, is done
Zdroj: Macbeth

Elizabeth Barrett Browning foto

“Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.”

Kdo miluje, věří i v nemožné.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Book V.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
Varianta: Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.

Bertrand Russell foto

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
Nikdy bych za svou víru nezemřel, protože bych se mohl mýlit.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Ian Maclaren foto

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Buďte laskaví, protože každý, koho potkáte, svádí těžký boj.

Ian Maclaren (1850–1907) British theologian and writer

The British Weekly, 1897. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
Misattributed
Varianta: Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.

Albert Einstein foto

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
Měřítkem inteligence je schopnost změny.

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

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
Nechci dosáhnout nesmrtelnosti svou prací, chci jí dosáhnout tím, že nezemřu. Nechci žít dál v srdcích svých krajanů, chci žít dál ve svém bytě.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Zdroj: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)

Anaïs Nin foto

“The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Přišel den, kdy riziko zůstat v poupěti bylo bolestivější než riziko, že rozkvete.

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Frequently attributed to Nin, but without cited source in her work (possibly due to a quotation in Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions (2000) by Dan Millman that attributed the quote to Nin without source).
In March 2013, a former Director of Public Relations at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Elizabeth Appell, claimed she had authored the quote in 1979 for an inspirational header on a class schedule: http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2013/03/who-wrote-risk-is-the-mystery-solved/
Disputed
Varianta: The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Pablo Picasso foto

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Každé dítě je umělec. Problém je jím zůstat, i když vyrostou.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Quote attributed to Picasso in TIME, October 4, 1976, Modern Living: Ozmosis in Central Park http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/07/child-art/ http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918412,00.html
Disputed
Varianta: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Eckhart Tolle foto

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
Nezřídka se stává, že lidé celý život čekají, až budou moci začít žít.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Zdroj: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Tennessee Williams foto

“A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages”
Modlitba za divoká srdce, která jsou držena v klecích.

Tennessee Williams Stairs to the Roof

This is the subtitle of the play
Zdroj: Stairs to the Roof (1941)

Paul Valéry foto

“to live means to lack something at every moment”
Žít znamená v každém okamžiku něco postrádat.

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
C.G. Jung foto

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
Přemýšlení je obtížné, proto většina lidí soudí.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Terry Pratchett foto

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
Příběhy představivosti mají tendenci rozrušit ty, které žádné nemají.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998) by David Pringle, and The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy (2003) by David Pringle
General sources

Martin Luther King, Jr. foto

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
Nikdo opravdu neví, proč je naživu, dokud neví, na co zemřel.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Kurt Cobain foto

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.”
Je spousta věcí, které si přeji, abych udělal, namísto toho abych tu jen vysedával a stěžoval si na svůj nudný život.

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Marilyn Monroe foto

“When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”
Když jste mladí a zdraví, můžete si v pondělí naplánovat sebevraždu a ve středu se už zase smát.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Zdroj: My Story

Emily Dickinson foto

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
Přines mi západ slunce v šálku.

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
Čím výš vzlétneme, tím menší se zdáme těm, kteří nedovedou létat.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Tak pravil Zarathustra

Zdroj: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Victor Hugo foto

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Milovat jinou osobu znamená vidět tvář Boží.

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

Varianta: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
Zdroj: Les Misérables

John Henry Newman foto

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
Jediným důkazem života je růst.

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Apologia pro Vita Sua http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/apologia1.html (1864).

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