Quotes by austrian authors

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do. Felix Baumgartner

Time First Immediately Well First Time Just Wanted Loved Realized

I had to work with a psychiatrist. Felix Baumgartner

Work Had Psychiatrist

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown. Felix Baumgartner

Unknown Something Obvious Always

I'm retired from the daredevil business. Felix Baumgartner

Business Daredevil Retired

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach. Felix Baumgartner

People World About Above Seems Because Them Fascinated

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro. Felix Baumgartner

Statue Rio Off Base Jesus

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. Felix Baumgartner

World Highest Buildings Off Base

I'm more a competitive person. Felix Baumgartner

More Person Competitive Competitive Person

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet. Ferdinand Piech

Me People Several Out Tried Push Nobody Door Succeeded Career

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself. Ferdinand Porsche

Fail Himself Does Times Then Challenged

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form. Ferdinand Porsche

Needs Pure Harmonious Through Form Decoration Should Product Elevated

Good design should be honest. Ferdinand Porsche

Good Design Should Honest

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. Franz Grillparzer

Wisdom Genius Sun Lightning Like Flash Resembles

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. Franz Grillparzer

Animals Fools Conviction Indeed Would Only Without However Human Transcendental Human Beings Convinced Notion Beings Need

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. Franz Grillparzer

Character Better Single Everyone Dares Misfortune He True True Character His German Than Authors Them Expose Thinks

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. Franz Grillparzer

Rule Only Exception Individual Partly Educated Uneducated Person Phenomenon

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. Franz Grillparzer

Age Crowded Abundant Ideas Most Where Original Original Ideas

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest. Franz Grillparzer

Day Every Day Progress Every Progressing Seems More Only Smarter Sure Making Least Forest Getting Mankind Ever Deeply Actually

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. Franz Grillparzer

Freedom Guns Seems Poem Feet Like Arms Within Verses Requires