Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope da

Summary

This quote expresses a desire for a stage that is so narrow, reminiscent of a tightrope wire, that only truly competent individuals would have the audacity to step onto it. The speaker longs for a world where the stage is reserved exclusively for those who are skilled and capable, eliminating the possibility of incompetence being displayed or celebrated. It reflects a longing for excellence and the idea that not everyone should be given the platform to perform if they lack the necessary talent or abilities.

Topics

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're sho

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

Caroline Kennedy

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Publilius Syrus

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowl

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Mistakes Living

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody end

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Fr, Essays on Political Economy

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no le

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Inspirational Attitude

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.