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'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Red
  • Orange
  • Red Carpet

• It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • Why
  • Business

• 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

• The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who would not themselves dream of volunteering - or of encouraging their children to do so.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Military

• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Segregation

• We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Money
  • Lawyers
  • Bookstore

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

  

  Elon Musk