Quotes by Croatian Authors

The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.
Eraldo Banovac
Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast.
Eraldo Banovac
There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.
Bernard Jan
Only the simplest of facts can be accepted as an undisputed truth.
Eraldo Banovac
Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really need a new problem?
Eraldo Banovac
Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.
Eraldo Banovac
There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated.
Eraldo Banovac
Life is not complex at all when we do not think about it.
Eraldo Banovac
The main proof that you actually do not exist is that nobody ever criticizes you.
Eraldo Banovac
Is there any difference between a happy and a lucky man? A happy is someone who finds an oasis with drinking water in a desert. A lucky man will always find water.
Eraldo Banovac
By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?
Eraldo Banovac
To smile sincerely is acceptable after making mistakes – that is the best way to feel cheerful and repeat the same mistakes.
Eraldo Banovac
A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.
Eraldo Banovac
There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.
Eraldo Banovac
Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.
Eraldo Banovac
After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.
Eraldo Banovac
Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession – think of earningfor life too.
Eraldo Banovac
A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.
Eraldo Banovac
Designing well-written tests still remains a challenging task. Some complex questions may lose clarity causing difficulties in providing meaningful answers. Basically, questions should be designed in such a way that each well-prepared student can easily give a correct answer.
Eraldo Banovac
Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.
Eraldo Banovac
You shouldn’t ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer.
Eraldo Banovac
For any question – regardless of its complexity – there is a clear andsimple answer.
Eraldo Banovac
Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in operating profit, and even bankruptcy.
Eraldo Banovac
If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.
Eraldo Banovac
A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk.
Eraldo Banovac
Stephen King is just one of the numerous modern engineers of human souls. This mega-writer got a mega-advance of seventeen million dollars for his latest book. The communist soul engineers would get an advance on their future historical guilt, crates of vodka, cirrhosis of the liver, and the constant possibility of a knock on the door from the KGB.
Dubravka Ugrešić
Don't judge people too strongly.
Eraldo Banovac
As much as we strive towards the light, we still want to be embraced by the shadow.
Zoran Drvenkar
Thinking differently is the key to improvement.
Eraldo Banovac
An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
Eraldo Banovac
Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.
Eraldo Banovac
Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.
Eraldo Banovac
There are roads where people go, and where they should arrive is their mission.
Eraldo Banovac
Do not criticize others unless you are willing to accept criticism.
Eraldo Banovac
Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.
Eraldo Banovac
The ultimate goal of a meteorologist is to set up differential equations of the movements of the air and to obtain, as their integral, the general atmospheric circulation, and as particular integrals the cyclones, anticyclones, tornados, and thunderstorms.
Andrija Maurović
For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny. And then she is gone.
Anna B. Doe
I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet respect for science was no match for the American innovation machine once unleashed. The problem comes when the government is inhibiting innovation with overregulation and short-sighted policy. Trade wars and restrictive immigration regulations will limit America’s ability to attract the best and brightest minds, minds needed for this and every forthcoming Sputnik moment.
Garry Kasparov
Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.
Eraldo Banovac
Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science.
Eraldo Banovac
Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might be an overture for sarcasm
Eraldo Banovac
Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might bean overture for sarcasm.
Eraldo Banovac
As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.
Dubravka Ugrešić
Intellectual capacity is the key to solving any complex problem.
Eraldo Banovac
Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules.
Eraldo Banovac
Our parents are always an important part of our inner life.
Eraldo Banovac
How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem.
Eraldo Banovac
One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.
Garry Kasparov
All this time, William doesn’t move from my side, his hand surely and confidently glued to my waist like it belongs there, one piece of a puzzle that matches the other, making the picture complete.
Anna B. Doe
Always educate yourself regardless of how old you are.
Eraldo Banovac
Successful people know how to share their own dreams with other people.
Eraldo Banovac
Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.
Eraldo Banovac
Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creatingnew ideas.
Eraldo Banovac
If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.).
Eraldo Banovac
When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences.
Eraldo Banovac
Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.
Eraldo Banovac
Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization.
Eraldo Banovac
An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either asa result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or justas a spark that lights up the considered problem.
Eraldo Banovac
There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers.
Eraldo Banovac
The precondition for solving a problem is having a clear idea on how tosolve it.
Eraldo Banovac