David Brin Quotes
It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.David Brin
Quotes to Explore
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
Natalie Gulbis -
I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
Dan Rather -
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
Halima Aden -
My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
Ram Charan -
Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
Ralph Merkle
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Candace Bushnell -
Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
Ted Nugent -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas -
Little boys have amazing minds.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
Ted Cruz -
When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
Victor Francis Hess -
I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
Cameron Diaz
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Make mistakes faster.
Andy Grove -
You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.
Jeff Sessions -
I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
Jamie Oliver -
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Pericles -
The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
Irene Rosenfeld -
It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
David Brin