Eric Schmidt Quotes

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

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• There is no sin except stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity
  • Except

• Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Party
  • Eyes

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
  • World
  • Place

• Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

  

  Usher
  • May
  • Success
  • Vision

• My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Music
  • Me
  • Goal

• I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Character
  • Driving

• Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Fire

• Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Feel
  • Say

• There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• There's nothing more human than two people making love.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Flowers

• One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Up
  • Way
  • Thoughts

• You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

  

  Saint Stephen
  • God
  • Desire
  • Trust

• The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Research
  • Nerd
  • Phase

• We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.

  

  James Comey
  • Up
  • Home
  • Identity

• Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Past

• I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Kids
  • Action
  • Beginning

• Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Sex

• It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Car

• The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

  

  Eric Schmidt