Jimmy Wales Quotes
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.Jimmy Wales
Quotes to Explore
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
W. Averell Harriman -
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor -
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Laetitia Casta -
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor -
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
Sam Graves -
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson -
I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
Irina Shayk -
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
Walter Dean Myers -
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael -
I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
Edith Pearlman
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck -
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler -
I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
Kara Hayward -
I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.
Olly Murs -
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
R. A. Salvatore -
I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
Zosia Mamet
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White America is in the minority.
Malcolm X -
The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.
Marianne Williamson -
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
As a keen political observer, I've noticed that most people do not really vote for someone for the Presidency as much as they vote against the other candidate. And I think President Johnston's sic decision was unfair to these people.
Pat Paulsen -
'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.
Markus Persson -
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
Jimmy Wales