W. Daniel Hillis Quotes

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty.

W. Daniel Hillis

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• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Present
  • Moment

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Energy
  • Myself
  • Limit

• I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Find

• It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Fans
  • Arizona

• The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Dad

• I couldn't care less about business.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Business
  • Care
  • Less

• I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Action

• Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Products
  • Lawsuits
  • Prod

• I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Writing
  • Views
  • Liked

• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Design

• You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thoughts

• If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Love
  • Spirit
  • Minutes

• All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'

  

  Sienna Guillory
  • Children
  • Actors
  • Troublemakers

• I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.

  

  Macaulay Culkin

• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Day

• Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Ideas
  • Design
  • Conflicting