Bruce Sterling Quotes

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Bruce Sterling

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• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Unexpected

• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Introduction

• There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Good
  • Help

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Kings
  • Sons
  • Companions

• One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Value

• Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Product
  • Apple

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Real
  • Ignore

• I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Crazy
  • Right
  • Wrong

• I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Jobs
  • Pages
  • Warm

• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Artists

• I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

  Gail Devers
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Medication

• After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Death
  • Question
  • Religious

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Song

• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Violence
  • Struggle
  • Survival

• People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • People

• You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.

  

  Ian McDonald Foreigner
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Gift

• What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Revolution
  • Direction
  • Opposite

• One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

  

  Bruce Sterling