Max Levchin Quotes
Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.
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It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.
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Now you are seeing electronic dance music producers on TV, on talk shows. It's so great to see the festivals growing bigger and bigger, it's like one big family that's all partying with each other. I love being a part of that.
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I have a mentality of not worrying about what people say about me, good or bad. That's not what I'm putting my energy into.
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Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
