Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

I try to be green as much as I can and it's hard. I feel like I'm never doing enough. [...] For me as an actor, there's only so many things I can do, and this is a way, through a film, to teach and hopefully get the message out to young kids.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

I know that when you take care of yourself and are happy and healthy, you are better for those around you and your environment.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.

Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.