Nikola Tesla Quotes
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.Nikola Tesla
Quotes to Explore
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp -
As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
Carlos Mesa -
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Vikas Swarup -
I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
Edith Pearlman
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You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.
Mahesh Babu -
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
Valentino Garavani -
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
Magic Johnson -
We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.
Wassily Kandinsky -
Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.
Ann Coulter -
I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald -
Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
Jacques Monod -
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
David Deutsch -
What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people.
Laurie Garrett -
Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-term side effects, and I just don't think that can be good for you.
Kristin Cavallari -
The point here is that straight men, by definition, have nothing to cry about, ever—since, after all, the hold all the cards in contemporary society. What's bizarre is that the author of these words spent forty years of her life married (happily, by all accounts, including her own) to a straight man. The only way to reconcile such rhetoric with her actual life and feelings is to recognize that Sedgwick truly is engaged in an act of performance here—playing a role, putting one over on us.
Bruce Bawer
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
Gayle Forman -
Women drive box office.
Octavia Spencer -
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
Douglas Wilson -
Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
Nikola Tesla