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 don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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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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In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
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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.
