Peter Diamandis Quotes
Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
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America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world.
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So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
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Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
