All Quotes

"Philosophy, in the great turning point that the history of the human spirit is undergoing today, seems called upon to take responsibility for the new form of humanism that is imposing itself."

"The thirst for knowledge is there, we know this from many signs: everything that can contribute to satisfying it, even if by modest means and to a modest extent, must be considered providential and cultivated with care."

"If it fails in this commitment to penetrate the human, to spread socially, philosophy has missed the opportunity offered to it by the times."

"Between being and nothingness there is no middle ground."

"All disciplines have being as their ultimate material object; but it must be said that metaphysics has it as its formal object."

"A generic humanitarian sentiment can lead to peace as well as war, to oppression as well as freedom, to violence as well as resignation."

"Cornelio Fabro essentially drew on Thomas Aquinas, while someone like Bontadini was first and foremost a follower of Giovanni Gentile."

"I am the first to recognise this. When I began to develop this way of thinking – but let's go back a long way – I was the first to realise that I should leave that university. Interviewer: However, you never broke off your personal relationship or esteem for your teacher, Gustavo Bontadini? Emanuele Severino: We loved each other, and I still get emotional when I think about it. I remember when he was in his last days... ah, what a dear man... I went to see him in Via Stradella – he lived in Via Stradella, near Corso Buenos Aires – and I said to him: “Maestro, I am Emanuele Severino”. He, who had not opened his eyes for days, gave a start and opened his arms to me. We embraced for a long time. Then he let go of my arms and I left him."

"I encourage women at every level to recognize themselves as a leader"

"It was a difficult time for the entire travel industry, and we decided the best way for Airbnb to navigate the future was to go back to the company’s roots and focus on Hosts and great hosting."

"I’ve worked consistently on strengthening our relationship with existing Hosts, helping our Hosts adapt to the post-pandemic travel landscape and growing our Host community."

"Each time, I had to be willing to listen, acknowledge when I needed to learn and ask for help. Women, in particular, often feel we need to have an answer for everything to be taken seriously."

"In the current cost of living crisis, we also want to raise awareness about hosting as a path to meaningful income."

"Another way we’re helping our Hosts address rising costs is through our energy- efficiency programs. We launched our first programmes in the UK and France last year and we’re expanding to other countries this year."

"Anecdotally, how I had to change my business dialogue in negotiations and of what my expectations were, whether I was working in Europe, or when I went to Australia, how different that was than Paris."

"I’ve lived all over the world, I grew up in Hong Kong, and I married someone in the diplomatic service. With Disney, I lived in Australia, then back to Paris and then the U.S."

"The opportunity to work at Disney has been phenomenal. Living in Australia was the biggest family adventure. I remember talking with my husband, who at the time was deputy national security advisor, and he was the one who said, if we don’t go now, we will never go."

"Freedom, observes the philosopher, is potential launched into infinity."

"We are always exposed to the permanent risk of our contingency: the contingency of the environment, of society, our own intimate contingency. We ourselves oscillate, we are in oscillation with respect to ourselves."

"A philosophy that consumes itself in thought consumes itself, annihilates itself. Philosophy must open the windows of freedom, the doors of freedom; it must establish freedom. A philosophy that does not establish freedom is a Procrustean bed, a guillotine."

"(About “the inability to control emotions, expectations, and tension on the court”) It's my job, and when I'm on the court, I want to do my best, and many times I don't understand that in certain situations I have to play with what I have. If tomorrow I have five, I have to play with five and I can't expect seven. This is what has always cost me throughout my career. It has taken me to a high level, but not as high as I could have gone. It's my limit. [...] Many people say, “You have to learn from Rafa [Nadal], you have to learn from Roger [Federer],” but how can you do that? There's only one Rafa, and there's only one Roger."

"I have to be honest, I don't like the future that lies ahead for this sport [tennis]. Maybe it's because I'm part of an older generation, but now all you see are kids hitting “bombs” with their serves and forehands. I don't enjoy it. When I stop playing, I won't watch it on television and I won't buy a ticket to see a show like that. I don't think it's worth it."

"Interviewer: “Fabio, how many times?” Fognini: How many times what? Interviewer: “How many times have you smashed your racket on the ground?” Fognini: Never enough."

"[...] when I hang up my racket, I'll be able to say that I was Fabio Fognini in every sense of the word. Mistakes are part of growing up: I don't brag about them, I'm not proud of them. And when I've made mistakes, I've always paid the price. I've never had any breaks in my life."

"Interviwer: “To win, do you have to be selfish?” Fognini: Yes, but only for a limited time. Let me explain: when I play against you, we're not friends, but if we want to go for a beer afterwards, I'm in. What happens on the court stays on the court. That's why after every fine or setback, I've always bounced back."

"I don't even know why certain things happen to me. [...] It's as if Fabio sometimes ceases to exist on the court and is suddenly replaced by another guy who is totally out of control. An enemy that I carry inside me and that I sometimes can't hold back."

"Interviewer: “Fognini would have won much more with a different mindset [...]: truth or stereotype?” Fognini: I've been hearing this my whole life, and I'm tired of it. I'm fine with the way things are: I've made it into the top 10 in the rankings while staying true to myself. Becoming what others want me to be would make me unhappy."

"Interviewer: “No regrets about not becoming a soccer player, perhaps for Inter, as your father dreamed?” Fognini: The Dellacasa family lived near our house in Arma: he was Inter's official masseur and a customer at my dad's hardware store. My dad is also a good friend of Altobelli's, so much so that in 1982 he invited him to follow the national team to Spain for the World Cup. All my childhood idols are soccer players: Materazzi the rebel, Zamorano the warrior. My father and I used to go to Pinetina to watch the training sessions. But when I was 13 and faced with a crossroads, I didn't hesitate: in tennis, you're on your own, the credit is yours, the blame is yours. There are no excuses. That's how it works."

"Whether you like it or not, we're all a bit like Fognini. Get used to it."

"I also slide on concrete, and all this sliding and starting again, sliding and starting again, the support... my joints suffer. I've always been someone who has to be in a certain physical condition when I'm on the court. I'm not six feet tall, I can't go out on the court not at my best and get by with my serve and power. Being in good physical shape is essential for me [...]"

"I've always said this, even if it may sound bad: I hope my son doesn't play tennis. Because I know what I've done, the sacrifices my dad made... Not that I'm not willing to make them for my children, far from it, but at the same time it's hard, because if you want to try to excel in our sport, you have to put in a lot of dedication. Maybe it's an adjective that may seem strong: “hard” is waking up at 4 a.m. and going to work. Ours is a very beautiful life, but there are a thousand difficulties. Being alone, far from home and friends, traveling, fatigue, jet lag: there are so many moments that fans don't see. Those who are close to us, those who follow us, know how hard it is. And you have to get used to these things from an early age. [...] This is a hard life. At the same time, I know we are very lucky. In the end, I've made a career out of a sport, and being able to earn a living this way is not something everyone can do; it's a privilege."

"I'm aware that I can't please everyone. But the most important thing, as I've always said and will say again, is that when Fabio Fognini ends his career, he may have some regrets, yes, but he'll come out with his head held high. Because of the wonderful career he has had and because he has never changed. Interviewer: What do you mean? Fognini: I have always remained myself, regardless of results, popularity, news, and everything around me. And I am proud of that because I think it is important. I think you can be Valentino Rossi, the world's number one motorcyclist, or Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods... but if these things change you, you lose a bit of your humanity. It wouldn't be fair to name names, but I think many of my colleagues have changed with success, and that's a very sad thing."

"Years ago, for example, I wasn't ready to understand the fans. Interviewer: The audience at the Internazionali di Roma, for example? Fognini: Yes, and the audience in Rome is a special one, which Fabio Fognini at the time was probably not ready to welcome, to take on his shoulders and carry with him. I had a love-hate relationship with Rome, especially when I was young. I've always been someone who likes to play in big stadiums, with strong players, with fans. It's always excited me. The crowd in Rome is one of the best ever. The fans speak your language, they know you, they want the best from you... playing in Rome is priceless. On the other hand, though, all this can also work against you. They can kill you. You're so tense and want to do so well that you can struggle, and that's something that happened to me in the past. And I didn't understand why they didn't support me when I was in trouble, when I really needed it. This love-hate relationship went on for quite some time. Then, I think we understood each other and, above all, they understood me. At the same time, I probably also learned to accept that the public had expectations, almost demands, of me. I've always been very short-tempered, very passionate, and this came out especially when things were going badly. I would get frustrated, angry, break a racket, argue with someone... But there is no right or wrong, everyone has their own way of expressing themselves and suffering when they fail."

"Facilitate stronger institutions a key anchor that will turn Nigeria from a country of oil consumption to a country that produces based on fast factors"

"We would use merit to employ, dramatically reduce poverty and return Nigeria to a place of strategic relevance with high value"

"Insecurity is a result of ineffective security strategy, address this by projecting strong leadership, state security and pursue a robust reform of security sector"

"China’s GDP stands at $18.74 trillion, while Nigeria’s GDP is barely 1% of that size, a little over 200 billion dollars."

"We had second-hand clothes, we lived nine years in the Ukraine without running water so no showers for nine years! It was really tough to be honest with you"

"Over the years, I have realized that in tennis, the psychological component is perhaps the most important. There is a huge amount of tension, and if you want to excel, the mind plays a big part and, above all, ‘the mind lies’, so you have to train it. As if it were a muscle, you have to find a way. In the past, few people trained their minds as they could have, but in my opinion it's important and today we work on it more. I have increasingly followed a certain type of mental training, if you can call it that, also because of the need to get out of certain situations. Interviewer: “Would you like to talk about it?” Fognini: I remember one year I was in Paris, and one night I woke up almost crying, next to Flavia [Pennetta]. I thought I was going to die. I was sweating, my heart was racing, I couldn't feel my left arm, I thought, “Help, I'm having a heart attack.” But no, it was a panic attack. The next day I went onto the court and didn't know what to do, I didn't know where to go, I couldn't breathe properly. These panic attacks have to be managed, you have to work on them, getting your mind used to them with exercises and being aware that things like this can happen. At first I was scared. But not as a tennis player [...], as a person. I thought: I don't want to be like this. Because it's not about suffering on the court, fighting, giving my best, running, winning matches: that's a kind of suffering I'm willing to endure. But off the court, I don't want to suffer like this."

"I feed only on this. They moisten my mouth, but I cannot swallow. The host gives me a physical impression of nourishment. Jesus, being my whole body, is the one who nourishes me. It is like a Resurrection. [...] I would like to shout to those who ask me if I eat that I eat more than they do, because I am nourished with the Eucharist of the blood and flesh of Jesus. I would like to say that it is they who arrest the fruits of this food within themselves, blocking its effects."

"I loved the sick very much and would have crossed mountains and valleys, if they had let me, to visit a sick person, not to cure them, but to love them"

"Did you notice that Our Mother in Lourdes did not simply say, as she did in Paris on Rue du Bac, that she was conceived without sin, but rather, “I am the Immaculate Conception”! She waited for the Church's proclamation of the dogma of her Holy Immaculate Conception to give us her personal identity before God."

"I believe that my first Communion in private was a taking possession by Our Lord; I believe he took possession of me at that moment."

"God does what he says: it is evident in his creation."

"Jesus did not promise to take away our cross. He told us to carry it on our shoulders, but with Jesus, the cross becomes all love."

"I have always prayed enormously in my life."

"I want to shout to those who ask me if I eat that I eat more than they do, because I feed on the Eucharist of the Blood and Flesh of Jesus. I want to tell them that they are the ones who block the effects of this nourishment within themselves, they block its effects."

"The role of Our Lady is to take care of the details, all the details; it is her maternal function that leads her to this."

"My life is a continuous Mass. I never feel that my bed is a bed; it is an altar, it is a cross."

"The priest encouraged me to pray without saying anything to me."