Category: Citazione del Giorno

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca [Seneca the Younger] (1 BC – 65 AD)

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“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”

— Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 – 2007)

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“Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.”

— Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936)

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“A wise traveler never depreciates his own country.”

— Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (1707 – 1793)

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“To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.”

— Giorgio Armani (born 1934)

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“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never.  And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

— Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909)

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“I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.”

— Umberto Guidoni, first European on board the International Space Station (born 1954)

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“Money is not everything.  My ambition was football itself, not the money I’d make from it.  If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that’s fine.  But I don’t spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.”

— Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974)

“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices.  What role does silence have in all this noise?”

— Federico Fellini (1920 – 1993)

“After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.”

— Dino De Laurentiis (1919 – 2010)

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