John Tillotson Quotes
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
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Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.
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Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
