Jimmy Wales Quotes

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.

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• The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Attitude
  • Almost

• 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
  • Good
  • Great
  • Period

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • More
  • Communism
  • Crusade

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• 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
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Like
  • Computer
  • Busy

• 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
  • Real
  • Stand

• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Too Much

• 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
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• 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
  • Beginning
  • Exercise
  • Start

• 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
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Around
  • Lived
  • Corner

• 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
  • Up
  • God
  • Wait

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• 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
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Starting

• 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
  • Great
  • Personality
  • Girls

• 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
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Years
  • Smile
  • Names

• I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Important

• How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • People
  • She
  • Character

• By now, people should know who I am. I have established myself as Rich the Kid, so people respect me.

  

  Dimitri Leslie Roger
  • People
  • Respect

• Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People