Peter Diamandis Quotes

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Job
  • Living

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Universe
  • Moments
  • Just

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Government
  • Voting
  • Sheep

• I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Kind
  • Band
  • Bored

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Holidays

• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Erosion of our being by our infirmities: the resulting void is filled by the presence of consciousness, what am I saying? - that void is consciousness itself.

  

  Emil Cioran

• Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Live
  • Book
  • Space

• Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Change

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

  

  Annie Besant
  • World
  • Men
  • Mind

• I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Space
  • Moon