All Quotes

“Let me ask if you had a headache and”

“I didn't see organizations playing with the flu in Utah.”

“Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible. Upon winning his seventh straight Gold medal and having set his seventh straight Olympic record in as many events in the 2008 Olympic Games, 16 August 2008. (Source: "Phelps ties Spitz’s record with seventh gold medal… just barely". Sports Illustrated. )”

“Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. Upon winning his eighth straight Gold medal and having set his eighth straight Olympic record, as well as his seventh world record, in his eight events in the 2008 Olympic Games, 17 August 2008. (Source: "Phelps wins historic eighth gold medal". CNN. )”

“It's not how you start, but it's how you finish. Upon winning four Gold medals after the silver medal in his first race in Rome 2009.”

“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work.”

“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.”

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.”

“Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.”

“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”

“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”

“Success is not about the medals. It's about the journey and the people who support you along the way.”

“We should admit rather that power produces knowledge (and not simply by encouraging it because it serves power or by applying it because it is useful); that power and knowledge directly imply one another. Michel Foucault, quoted in Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee”

“[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti”

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), tr. A. M. Sheridan Smith”

“Marxism exists in nineteenth”

“Dits et Écrits 1954”

“Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual”

“Friendship as a Way of Life,”

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being. Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault”

“I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto”

“When I was a student in the 1950s, I read Husserl, Sartre, Merleau”

“the quill cannot express good will.”

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV”

“As quoted in Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror (1890) by George Augustus Lofton , p. 432.”

“I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. As quoted in In Our Time : The Artist , BBC Radio 4 (28 March 2002).”

“As when, O lady mine, With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mold, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows. Sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna ; tr. Mrs. Henry Roscoe (Maria Fletcher Roscoe), Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems (1868), p. 169.”

“Veggio nel tuo bel viso, Signor mio”

“Translation: That fount of mercy, whence we all exist, Every beauty seen here [on earth] resembles, More than anything else to knowing persons; Translated by Luciano Rebay, Invitation to Italian Poetry (1969), p. 77”

“Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”