Jason Silva Quotes
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.
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The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.
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Life is always at some turning point.
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I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show.
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Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.
