John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes
I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.
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There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.
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I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.
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Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
