Philipp Meyer Quotes

My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'

Philipp Meyer

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• I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Collaboration

• In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Heart
  • Book
  • True

• Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Time
  • Research
  • Performance

• I know so many kids who literally are, like, Instagram-famous. They have done nothing but post pictures on Instagram. And they have followings. People love to see them in person, but it's only because they post on their Instagram. It's literally crazy.

  

  Willow Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Kids

• My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Relieved

• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.

  

  George Emil Palade
  • School
  • Discipline
  • Medicine

• My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Believe
  • School
  • High