Hans Rosling Quotes

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.

Hans Rosling

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• I love to push myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Push

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Child

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Time
  • Clean
  • Organized

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Children
  • Soul
  • inspirational

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • You
  • Friend
  • Gay

• My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Women
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Women
  • Age
  • Fighting

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Moving
  • Value

• You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that's what comes out in my writing.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Up
  • Writing

• I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Emotion