Charles Petzold Quotes

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

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• It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Lose
  • Head
  • Championships

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Christian
  • Serious

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Real
  • Help
  • Lucky

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Game
  • Story
  • Fantasy

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Home
  • Education

• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mean
  • Old
  • Masters

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Always
  • Film
  • Go

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Society
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Think
  • Me
  • Service

• Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Heaven

• Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Technology

• January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Passing

• Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Mind
  • Struggle
  • Ability

• If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Band

• I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

  

  Charles Petzold
  • Nature
  • Environment