Hermann Maier quote: "For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder."

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.
HERMANN MAIER

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, ...
HERMANN MAIER

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I fee...
HERMANN MAIER

I can be happy with second place because it is always good to be on the podium but I am totally unha...
HERMANN MAIER

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. ...
HERMANN MAIER

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.
HERMANN MAIER

I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skie...
HERMANN MAIER

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motiva...
HERMANN MAIER

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.
HERMANN MAIER

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive anoth...
HERMANN MAIER

If it's possible to do some charity, I'm always there, ... A lot of people, they are thinking that o...
HERMANN MAIER

[After the race, Maier praised the skier he had passed on the career list, Alberto Tomba of Italy.] ...
HERMANN MAIER

This is a big joy for me,
HERMANN MAIER

Those days are gone,
HERMANN MAIER

Coming into the race I really had no idea how I would do and I certainly never thought that I could ...
HERMANN MAIER

I just found it overpowering - I guess the tension at the start of the season is a lot more than you...
HERMANN MAIER

When I saw Bode's time in red,
HERMANN MAIER

I didn't expect it. I was totally surprised myself,
HERMANN MAIER

I never thought I could win again here on such a difficult course, which is why it means so much to ...
HERMANN MAIER

To be on the podium is already a big achievement. But it's incredible to win this race.
HERMANN MAIER

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.
HERMANN MAIER

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be r...
HERMANN MAIER

It made sense for the two members to hold the meetings together. Obviously Congresswoman Berkley is ...
AMY MAIER

There are many options for seniors under the new program to ensure they find a benefit that meets th...
AMY MAIER

That would not be an appropriate interpretation of the letter.
AMY MAIER

He didn't create that list; it was the Department of Homeland Security. He had no say in the process...
AMY MAIER

It is certainly a very disturbing report.
AMY MAIER

This could be the end of unwanted pop-up ads.
FRAN MAIER

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is com...
JONATHAN MAIER

Jimmy has switched from a two-hand backhand to a one-hand backhand and has struggled with that, but ...
MIKE MAIER

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan

-Thérèse Nyirabayovu
KARL MAIER

A lot of people were cheering us up when we were up there. They were laughing, dancing. They were ni...
DAX MAIER

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into t...
DAX MAIER

I just told myself, don't look down.
DAX MAIER

Everybody is calm. They are just tired at this point.
DAX MAIER

Sometimes you can find great people in New York.
DAX MAIER

We had a wonderful freshman class that stepped up for the seniors we lost, and I think that's why we...
EMILY MAIER

I'm thrilled to be honored like this because this is my first year and I didn't really expect it. Bu...
EMILY MAIER

Claire puts a lot of hours in the pool and she works extremely hard, and because of that, she's deve...
EMILY MAIER

She's a very, very timid person, and since she was scared, I was just like, I just wanted her to fee...
DAX MAIER

Our study found that to truly respect consumers' privacy, companies need to incorporate privacy into...
FRAN MAIER

I think they could all be complementary and get together over time.
FRAN MAIER

We take these things extremely seriously. We always have, we do now. That's all we can say consideri...
FRAN MAIER

We are very concerned about anyone who has been hurt and will address that,
FRAN MAIER

In the case of people making allegations against Father Abercrombie, it's something we take very ser...
FRAN MAIER

Make no mistake: Your Catholic family and mine - not some disembodied Catholic institution - are the...
FRAN MAIER

We think this will be the end of unwanted software on your computer. Consumers deserve to have contr...
FRAN MAIER

With consumers downloading more and more software, it?s vital to give people real control over what ...
FRAN MAIER

These goals were part of the lease agreement with the city of Burley.
MARK MAIER

Sales and profits for the December quarter increased both year-over-year and sequentially from the S...
LOTHAR MAIER

It was a good, solid effort by our team. In fact, both teams played well and had a solid effort.
MIKE MAIER

Unfortunately, there was a set of events that led us to believe that this was the actual controlled ...
ROGER MAIER

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother an...
PAUL L. MAIER

We're really going to have to be very frugal with how we staff them. If the classes have to run a li...
SHARON VON MAIER

Kids are getting discouraged and dropping out because they don't think they're going to get a diplom...
SHARON VON MAIER

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
HERMANN HESSE

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inh...
HERMANN BROCH

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the...
HERMANN OBERTH

Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor i...
HERMANN GOERING

The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSE

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSE

I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was tha...
HERMANN HESSE

Love is stronger than violence.
HERMANN HESSE

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, al...
HERMANN HESSE

...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and ...
HERMANN HESSE

When someone is searching then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that...
HERMANN HESSE

E ora vedi: questo "un giorno" è illusione, è soltanto un modo di dire! Il peccatore non è in cam...
HERMANN HESSE

Man svarbu mokėti mylėti pasaulį, neniekinti jo, nejausti neapykantos jam ir sau, žvelgti į jį...
HERMANN HESSE

He had heard a voice, a voice in his own heart, which had commanded him to seek rest under this tree...
HERMANN HESSE

Meilę galima iškaulyti, nupirkti, gauti dovanų, atrasti gatvėje, bet jėga jos išplėšti negal...
HERMANN HESSE

The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is p...
HERMANN HESSE

And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his ...
HERMANN HESSE

Suchen heißt: ein Ziel haben. Finden aber heißt: frei sein, offen stehen, kein Ziel haben ... Ein ...
HERMANN HESSE

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSE

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that...
HERMANN HESSE

Yes Siddhartha,' he said. 'Is this what you mean: that the river is in all places at once, at its so...
HERMANN HESSE

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force....
HERMANN HESSE

Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the g...
HERMANN HESSE

For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived t...
HERMANN HESSE

el desesperado no querer morir, es el camino más seguro para la muerte eterna, en tanto que saber m...
HERMANN HESSE

E' sempre stranamente toccante vedere come la nebbia separi tutto ciò che è vicino o apparentement...
HERMANN HESSE

Dù bị đau đớn quằn quại, tôi vẫn tha thiết yêu thương trần gian điên dại n�...
HERMANN HESSE

Thật đáng hổ thẹn nếu cứ sống trôi lăn, để cuộc đời lừa lọc, thay khóc ...
HERMANN HESSE

No está la muerte ni allí ni aquí,
se alza en todos los senderos.
Está en ti y está ...
HERMANN HESSE

Más o menos, mi muchacho querido, todas la palabras humanas acaban siendo un embuste; donde relativ...
HERMANN HESSE

Mira, todos los hombres son capaces de hacer lo increíble cuando están amenazados sus ideales. Per...
HERMANN HESSE

Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado...
HERMANN HESSE

¿No irá usted a creer que todos esos bípedos que andan por la calle son hombre sólo porque anden...
HERMANN HESSE

[...] tutto mentiva, tutto puzzava, puzzava di menzogna, tutto simulava un significato di bontà e d...
HERMANN HESSE

Pero cada uno de los hombres no es tan solo él mismo; es también un punto único, particularismo, ...
HERMANN HESSE

Quien no lleva dentro un lobo no tiene por eso que ser feliz tampoco.
HERMANN HESSE

Könnte ich es sagen und lehren, so wäre ich ein Weiser. So aber bin ich nur ein Fährmann und mein...
HERMANN HESSE

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.
HERMANN HESSE

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
HERMANN HESSE

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but...
HERMANN HESSE

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...
HERMANN HESSE

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and eff...
HERMANN HESSE

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
HERMANN HESSE

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure ...
HERMANN HESSE

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asi...
HERMANN HESSE

Stages

As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every ...
HERMANN HESSE

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
HERMANN HESSE

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his hear...
HERMANN HESSE

The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and...
HERMANN HESSE

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
HERMANN HESSE

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most impor...
HERMANN HESSE

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
HERMANN HESSE

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, t...
HERMANN HESSE

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, ...
HERMANN HESSE

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- ...
HERMANN HESSE

The river is everywhere.
HERMANN HESSE

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or rejec...
HERMANN HESSE

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other d...
HERMANN HESSE

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
HERMANN HESSE

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
HERMANN HESSE

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the go...
HERMANN HESSE

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
HERMANN HESSE

When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing t...
HERMANN HESSE

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force...
HERMANN HESSE

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my ...
HERMANN HESSE

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
HERMANN HESSE

Your soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSE

Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are ...
HERMANN HESSE

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...
HERMANN HESSE

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed man...
HERMANN HESSE

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a res...
HERMANN HESSE

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that ...
HERMANN HESSE

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourse...
HERMANN HESSE

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other...
HERMANN WEY

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
HERMANN WEYL

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...
HERMANN HESSE

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...
HERMANN HESSE

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ...
HERMANN HESSE

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c...
HERMANN HESSE

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every g...
HERMANN HESSE

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think i...
HERMANN HESSE

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; i...
HERMANN HESSE

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the riv...
HERMANN HESSE

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ...
HERMANN HESSE

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after somethin...
HERMANN HESSE

For example, there is a species of butterfly, a night-moth, in which the females are much less commo...
HERMANN HESSE

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one ...
HERMANN HESSE

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSE

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSE

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal,...
HERMANN HESSE

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophr...
HERMANN HESSE

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit...
HERMANN BROCH

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv...
HERMANN HESSE

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, ...
HERMANN HESSE

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each...
HERMANN HESSE

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a ...
HERMANN HESSE

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas ...
HERMANN HESSE

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have nev...
HERMANN HESSE

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...
HERMANN HESSE

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself...
HERMANN HESSE

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life i...
HERMANN GOERING

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The peop...
HERMANN BROCH

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
HERMANN BROCH

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
HERMANN BROCH

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also...
HERMANN GOERING

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness ...
HERMANN HESSE

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
HERMANN GOERING

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
HERMANN HESSE

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its...
HERMANN HESSE

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the othe...
HERMANN HESSE

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no dock...
HERMANN HAGEDORN

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single sa...
HERMANN HESSE

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.
HERMANN HESSE

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...
HERMANN HESSE

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSE

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we ac...
HERMANN HESSE

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. T...
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...
HERMANN HESSE

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSE

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concep...
HERMANN HESSE

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSE

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimen...
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that le...
HERMANN HESSE

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, ...
J.F HERMANN

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
HERMANN HESSE

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. ...
HERMANN HESSE

(We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the gene...
HERMANN HESSE

The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no real...
HERMANN HESSE

I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to come...
HERMANN HESSE

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of...
HERMANN HESSE

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark wor...
HERMANN HESSE

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the...
HERMANN HESSE

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear a...
HERMANN HESSE

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...
HERMANN HESSE

Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. ...
HERMANN HESSE

We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane an...
HERMANN HESSE

The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contain...
HERMANN HESSE

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i...
HERMANN HESSE

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to ge...
HERMANN HESSE

Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
HERMANN HESSE

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so ve...
HERMANN HESSE

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are o...
HERMANN HESSE

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s...
HERMANN HESSE

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to ...
HERMANN HESSE

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.

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For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.

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