Peter Diamandis Quotes
My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
