Peter Diamandis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
-
I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
-
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
-
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
-
My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
-
If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
-
I find the business world hard.
-
I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
-
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
-
The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
-
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
-
I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
-
I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
-
I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
-
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
-
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
-
I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
-
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,The Elfin from the green grass, and from meThe summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
-
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
-
I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.
-
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.
-
I grew up watching sci-fi and Justice League and all those kinds of things.
-
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
-
One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
