Mark Zuckerberg Quotes
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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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.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
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We are so close to the world of work that we can't see what it does to us. We have to rely on outside observers from other times or other cultures to appreciate the extremity and the pathology of our present position.
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
