Bill Nye Quotes

Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Age
  • Lazy
  • Three

• Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Silent
  • Presence

• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Waiting
  • Would

• One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • World
  • Marriage

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Business
  • Together

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Wish
  • Him
  • I Wish

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Family
  • Right

• I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • May

• Stop it,” I said. “Just stop it!” I knew I was starting to cry and I was so sick, sick, sick to death of all those sad damned tears I had inside me. How could I have so many tears living there, in my body? How could they fit? When was it going to stop? When?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Death
  • Stop
  • Tears

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Done

• In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.

  

  John Wooden
  • Practice
  • Coaching

• Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Joy