Neil Harbisson Quotes

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Neil Harbisson

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Crush

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Time
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Pay
  • Employees

• The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Culture

• In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Attention
  • Name

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• I know one business, and that's how to make software.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Business
  • Know
  • Software

• I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • World
  • Think
  • Fat

• But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Same
  • Crew

• The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • War

• The artist lives only day by day, and is the recipient of the things that surround him; he transposes sensations from outside, according to what the fate reserves him, but transforms them relentlessly and tenaciously, in a manner determined by him alone.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Alone
  • Fate

• The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Long
  • Mind
  • High

• The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Pain
  • Taken

• Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

  

  Richard Russo
  • Always
  • Things
  • Structure

• Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

  

  Confucius
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Reaching

• We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

  

  Neil Harbisson