#contemporaries

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#continue #guided #never #oneself #opinion

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are. ↗

— Robert Forster

#contemporaries #feeling #i #looking #never

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#contemporaries #lost #much #our #rationality

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#become #contemporaries #fame #fortune #i

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#business #contemporaries #destiny #entered #logical

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#contemporaries #could #get #got #had