Brian Greene Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

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• For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • World
  • Done
  • Political

• If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Nice
  • Football

• I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Love
  • Wise

• I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • World
  • Interest
  • Tricks

• Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Woman

• A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

  

  Christina Romer

• From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Men
  • Force
  • Apodictic

• Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

  

  Brian Greene
  • World