Max Picard Quotes

#1. He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an 'artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf

Christopher Clark

#2. Never compromise your values.

Steve Maraboli

#3. Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Max Picard

#4. We could have the most amazing leaders, the best policies and the strictest laws; however, if we the people don't care about what the leaders do or about following laws, nothing good can happen.

Chetan Bhagat

#5. Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Richard Corliss

#6. I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

Irvin Kershner

#7. A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,

Max Picard

#9. We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.

Marshall Sahlins

#10. From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Jose Saramago

#11. If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.

Biz Stone

#12. The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.

Kim Novak

#13. Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

Max Picard

#14. If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

Jayson Williams

#15. Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

Max Picard

#16. For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.

Geraldine Brooks