Peter Diamandis Quotes
When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
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Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'
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I lost my virginity to a record skip. 'Lay Lady Lay-Lay Lady Lay-Lay Lady Lay'. We didn't even get to the big brass bed part.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love that tone. It's a great show.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
