Peter Diamandis Quotes

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

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• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Now
  • Saying

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • First
  • Step

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Hands
  • Starting
  • Filmmaking

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Grow
  • Only

• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Age
  • Army

• All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Over

• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Philosophy

• I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Boy
  • Going
  • Favorite

• You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Work
  • High
  • Night

• I worked in a gym. I was a trainer. I did all the crappy ex-football-player jobs.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Football
  • Player
  • Gym

• Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Kids

• We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Live
  • American
  • Society

• Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • World
  • Greece
  • Shrinking

• My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Society
  • Feeling