Jimmy Wales Quotes
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
Quotes to Explore
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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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.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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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.
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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.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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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.
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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.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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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.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!
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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
