Eric S. Raymond Quotes
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
Ira Glass -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus -
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
Jack Nicklaus -
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Tabatha Coffey -
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
C. L. R. James
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino -
I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
Damien Chazelle -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
Haile Gebrselassie -
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. Murray Abraham -
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
Samantha Stosur -
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
Famke Janssen -
I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.
Taylor Lautner -
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
Dakota Fanning -
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
Earl Monroe
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh -
I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.
Kirstjen Nielsen -
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
Daniel Dennett -
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
Vanessa Marano -
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert -
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
Eric S. Raymond