Elon Musk Quotes

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

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• We are wiser than we know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Wisdom
  • Wiser

• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• 'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Never
  • Bunch
  • Godfather

• Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.

  

  K. Flay
  • School
  • Think
  • Know

• I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Career
  • Training
  • Week

• It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Great
  • True
  • Culture

• President-elect Trump wants to win them if you're going to be involved in a war. I don't think he wants to be involved in war, but when we are, he wants to win.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Think
  • Win

• Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People

• P. 113.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Friend

• I have the responsibility to let the people know what happened to me, and did I commit the crime or if I didn’t, what is the real accusation? Why am I in this condition today? I think it reflects our human condition in this piece of land, and if I don’t bear some responsibility . . . . many, many people, their voice can never be heard.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

  

  Aristotle Onassis
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line 'You cannot be turned down for this coverage!' are actually saying, ' For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.'

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Life
  • Small
  • Insurance

• The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

  

  Angus Wilson
  • Life
  • Vision

• Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Trust

• Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much.

  

  Philip Baker Hall
  • Up
  • Remember

• There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • People
  • Education
  • Learning

• I don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Truth
  • Confidence
  • Speak

• We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Jump

• If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• I'd watch shows like 'The Kids in the Hall' or 'Twin Peaks,' and I'd see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without compromising their weirdness. On 'The Facts of Life,' I'd see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish - many ways of being female - and I'd feel quietly reassured.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • People
  • Life
  • Kids

• I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

  

  Elon Musk