Zitat des Tages über Sinn / Sense:
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
The only people I've ever met who are really successful in their fields, regardless of what field that is, are people who are deeply passionate about the work they do every day and are motivated by a sense of purpose.
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.
I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought. In that sense, I am very satisfied and have great respect for the decisions of the writers.
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
Art is a sense of magic.
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
