Paul Graham Quotes

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

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• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Enjoy

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Understand
  • Find
  • Start

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Revolution
  • Understand

• Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Fun
  • Words

• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Religion
  • Understand

• They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • House
  • Words
  • Style

• A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• Tone matters more than words.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Words
  • Matters
  • Tone

• There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Understand
  • Healthy

• I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • People
  • Kind
  • Understand

• I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Technology
  • Understand
  • Very

• People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Women
  • Words

• Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Different
  • Food
  • Body

• Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Words
  • You
  • Story

• I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Why
  • Want
  • Hate

• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Words

• I don't think the pictures and words can be separated, ... If you get an amazing photograph, like the dust clouds blowing over a small town in Kansas, it's not enough to look at the picture; (the readers) want to know, 'How did this happen, that half the farming soil of a whole state is blown away?' And then you want to know, 'Well, what happened to the people, and what kind of condition were they in? It's in the middle of the '30s, and most of them were unemployed, and how did they get out of it? Why didn't the politicians act sooner?'

  

  Harold Evans
  • Words
  • Picture
  • Separated

• The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Duty

• Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Woman
  • Understand
  • Judgment

• I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Business
  • Feel
  • Emotions

• I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Great
  • Done
  • May

• If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Words
  • Understand
  • Thrashing