Charles Stross Quotes

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Charles Stross

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Moon

• Everybody has their struggles.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Everybody
  • Struggles

• If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Future
  • Past
  • Taken

• I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Long
  • Friend

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Day
  • Bible

• When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Book
  • Clock
  • Finishing

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Want
  • Well

• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Children
  • Real

• That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Man
  • Me
  • Fighter

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• Everything I experience influences everything I do.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Experience
  • Everything

• Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Truth
  • True
  • Knowledge

• While brands slowly transform the experience of campus life for undergraduates, another kind of takeover is under way at the institutional research level. All over the world, university campuses are offering their research facilities, and priceless academic credibility, for the brands to use as they please.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• The things are mighty few on earthThat wishes can attain.Whate'er we want of any worthWe've got to work to gain.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Work
  • Wishes

• I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I've liked what I've seen so far, and I'm just trying to get used to the college level,

  

  Billy Blanks
  • College
  • Seen
  • Liked

• Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Truth
  • Propaganda
  • Opponent

• The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

  

  Helen Keller
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Joy

• Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

  

  Charles Stross