Daniel Yergin Quotes
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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Three-wheelers are a vital means of transportation and a source of livelihood for millions of people every day.
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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
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Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.
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People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
