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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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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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 learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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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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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
