Derek Sivers Quotes
Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I still have a young attitude.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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All of the other books in the series... none of them are particularly like 'Ender's Game.'
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You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.
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A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it’s going to betray you-
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I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access.
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Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.
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Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.
