Quotes by Austrian/Austria authors (page 24)

"When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?"

"One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now"

"My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"The guilt of newborns is immense"

Georg Trakl, Poet

"Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls"

Georg Trakl, Poet

"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine"

Karl von Frisch, Scientist

"I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910"

Karl von Frisch, Scientist

"Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot"

Ernst Haas, Photographer

"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"

Ernst Haas, Photographer

"The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

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

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood"

Georg Trakl, Poet

"The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels"

Georg Trakl, Poet

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are"

Ernst Haas, Photographer

"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

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

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

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Quotes by Austrian authors