Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

It should look like a beetle. Nature will show us the way.

Nothing is invented that has not appeared in nature first.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

There is no better designer than nature

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Keys," she repeated, and slowly stepped back. "What do you mean, keys?" "Car keys. As in, give them up. Now." Shane had that look -- hard, and no bullshit. "We don't have time for your drama, Monica. Nobody does.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.

We need an international solution to the challenge of climate change, there's no question about it. But the real key is, can you actually get that - or get that solution - without the US' involvement? Can you not lead domestically, and expect the rest of the world will take action... the US needs to lead, we need to be out there.

Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.