Peter Diamandis Quotes

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

Peter Diamandis

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• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Know
  • Passion

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • May
  • Effort
  • Name

• You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Internet

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Years
  • Been

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Travel

• To err is human, but it feels divine.

  

  Mae West
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Divine

• Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • House
  • Credit
  • Key

• 2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does: 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Planet
  • Century
  • Trend

• Sweet darlin’, come hold me, Just a little bit longer now

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Sweet

• Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Great

• Self-defence helps with your confidence, and if you ever find yourself in that type of situation, you are more physically capable.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Confidence

• I believe that women should be treated just like men.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

  

  Peter Diamandis