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

• I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Surgery
  • Studied
  • Area

• 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 only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Country
  • Couple

• I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Think
  • Rest

• A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Truth

• We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

  

  Joe Slovo
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Water
  • Wine
  • Sight

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

  

  Neil Harbisson