The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour! —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: effort goals detour Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Richard Kehl The British during World War ii came up with some imaginative ideas. One was to freeze the clouds, move them along the coast of southern England, and use them as platforms for antiaircraft guns. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: history guns weather WWII Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small? —Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email [The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: truth man Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The British during World War ii came up with some imaginative ideas. One was to freeze the clouds, move them along the coast of southern England, and use them as platforms for antiaircraft guns. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: history guns weather WWII Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small? —Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: truth man Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “goals” My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? —Charles M. Schulz More about this quote Tags: wonder life purpose meaning happiness goals direction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. —John Dewey More about this quote Tags: satisfaction accomplishment change goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind. —Rhonda Byrne in The Secret More about this quote Tags: accomplishment achievement goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: effort goals fanaticism dogmatism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: capability power accomplishment goals dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? —Charles M. Schulz More about this quote Tags: wonder life purpose meaning happiness goals direction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. —John Dewey More about this quote Tags: satisfaction accomplishment change goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind. —Rhonda Byrne in The Secret More about this quote Tags: accomplishment achievement goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: effort goals fanaticism dogmatism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: capability power accomplishment goals dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email