Dean Kamen Quotes
Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
Quotes to Explore
-
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
-
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
-
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
-
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
-
Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
-
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
-
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
-
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
-
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
-
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
-
A laugh is a terrible weapon.
-
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
-
My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
-
It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
-
If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
-
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
-
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
-
I'm a fan of records you get and you listen to them from beginning to finish - records where everything is there for a purpose. There was never any filler on those records - it was all well planned out.
-
I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
-
When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
-
I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want to become a pool shark.
-
Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
