Jason Silva Quotes
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
Quotes to Explore
-
Broadway is really my life.
-
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
-
I'm cranky.
-
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
-
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
-
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
-
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
-
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
-
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
-
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
-
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
-
Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
-
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
-
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
-
I don't like to look typical.
-
Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
-
It's embarrassing to be in the only westernized economy that doesn't have paid family leave and flex scheduling, and that disproportionately helps women.
-
I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
-
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
-
I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
-
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
