John Locke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.
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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
