Top 100 Werner Quotes
#1. I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
Werner Klemperer
#2. Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
Werner Herzog
#3. The thing that becomes true about you is the thing you think the most often.
Kenny Werner
#4. The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.
Werner Heisenberg
#5. There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
Werner Herzog
#6. Time slows. The attic disappears. Jutta disappears. Has anyone ever spoken so intimately about the very things Werner is most curious about? Open
Anthony Doerr
#7. The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
Werner Herzog
#8. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#9. What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.
Werner Erhard
#10. Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of " capital ." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.
Werner Sombart
#11. I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
Werner Herzog
#12. You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
Werner Herzog
#13. The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
Werner Heisenberg
#14. There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
Werner Herzog
#15. I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge.
Werner Heisenberg
#16. [Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind.
Werner Erhard
#17. I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Werner Herzog
#18. The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
Werner Herzog
#19. Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
Werner Von Braun
#20. I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
Werner Herzog
#21. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.
Kenny Werner
#22. Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?
Werner Heisenberg
#23. Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;
Anthony Doerr
#25. It is only through writing that I become myself
Werner Herzog
#26. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
Werner Herzog
#27. If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
Werner Herzog
#28. Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.
Werner Erhard
#29. I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
Werner Herzog
#30. The reaction you got was the communication you intended.
Werner Erhard
#31. The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#32. In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.
Werner Heisenberg
#33. You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated.
Tom Preston-Werner
#34. May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
Werner Herzog
#35. What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Werner Herzog
#37. There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.
Werner Sombart
#38. I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
Werner Herzog
#39. This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
Werner Erhard
#40. The chicken's still dancing
the chicken won't stop
Sarah Kane
#41. Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.
Werner Heisenberg
#42. I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
Werner Herzog
#43. Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
Werner Heisenberg
#44. There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
Werner Herzog
#45. If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
Werner Herzog
#46. Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere.
If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.
Werner Erhard
#47. I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
Oskar Werner
#48. In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
Werner Heisenberg
#49. I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
Alfred Werner
#50. Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.
Alfred Werner
#51. I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
Kenny Werner
#52. Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
Werner Herzog
#53. There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
Werner Herzog
#54. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#55. I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
Werner Herzog
#56. Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
Werner Herzog
#57. Create your future from your future not your past.
Werner Erhard
#58. You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard
#60. It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.
Werner Heisenberg
#61. Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
Werner Erhard
#64. He may have the Rockwell genes, but he has the Werner genitals! Adda boy, Mr. Werner said a little too proudly.
Melisa M. Hamling
#65. I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#66. Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#67. The skaven will not prevail! Here they will be broken, shattered upon our steel! They fight for domination, to sate their greed. We fight for our homes, for our families, for those we would keep safe from the horrors of Old Night. It is our cause that is just; it is our fight that is righteous!
C.L. Werner
#68. After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
Werner Heisenberg
#69. Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Werner Herzog
#70. I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.
Werner Herzog
#71. Werner Heisenberg put it, "what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Heisenberg, a German physicist, made this observation regarding quantum mechanics, but it holds equally true for explorations of the animal
Frans De Waal
#72. Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.
Werner Erhard
#73. Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Werner Herzog
#74. Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.
Werner Erhard
#75. While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.
Werner Erhard
#76. Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
Dan Gilroy
#77. In the long run I don't think anyone can overlook these images of hunger, that people can ignore all my pictures - no, definitely not. And even if only a vague impression remains, in time this will create a basis that will help people distinguish between what is good and what is objectionable.
Werner Bischof
#78. Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
Werner Herzog
#79. I aim to help the Germans and the Europeans successfully travel all the way down the path toward European integration, and I can do this more effectively if I don't commit myself to a party.
Hans-Werner Sinn
#80. I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
Werner Herzog
#81. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.
Werner Herzog
#82. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
Werner Heisenberg
#83. I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
Werner Herzog
#84. We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
Werner Herzog
#85. The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
George Poulett Scrope
#86. I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
Werner Herzog
#87. Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.
Werner Erhard
#88. The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.
Werner Heisenberg
#90. I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
Werner Herzog
#91. I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.
Werner Herzog
#92. I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.
Werner Klemperer
#93. To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we've taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.
Werner Erhard
#94. Until you've completed your relationship with your parents, all your relationships will be about your parents.
Werner Erhard
#95. You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
Werner Herzog
#96. I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
Werner Heisenberg
#97. Begin building the future through "conversation for possibility."
Werner Erhard
#98. Honoring your word is also the route to creating whole and complete social and working relationships. In addition, it provides an actionable pathway to earning the trust of others.
Werner Erhard
#99. I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
Werner Herzog
#100. So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things to which you may be attached. You may have to give up your resentments, your anger, your upset, your annoyance, your desire to punish.
Werner Erhard
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