Fred Wilson Quotes

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

Fred Wilson

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• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Why
  • Book

• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • War
  • Lost
  • Pain

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
  • Question
  • Internet

• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
  • Autographs

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Want
  • Religious
  • Mad

• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Deep
  • Friendship
  • Roots

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Know

• Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • You
  • Environment
  • Find

• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• You make me laugh and you’re likely to get everything you want.

  

  Ian Bohen
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Laugh

• Part of what dressing for yourself means requires your understanding that the scrutiny of others is frankly irrelevant.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Understanding

• We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Energy
  • Space