Paul Graham Quotes

If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Champion

• It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Christian
  • Difficult
  • Islamic

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Creativity
  • Room

• Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Music
  • School
  • Experience

• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  

  J. T. Walsh
  • Going
  • Material
  • Metaphors

• The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Parents
  • Powerful
  • Influence

• My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Person

• 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Green
  • Presidential
  • Election

• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Different
  • Beauty
  • Win

• People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Space
  • Sometimes

• Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Always
  • Little
  • Ever

• I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Me
  • Player

• I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Scared

• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Person
  • Prosperity
  • Turn

• Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Listening

• I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Hope

• Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

  

  Alan Dean Foster

• Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

  

  Audrey Meadows
  • People
  • Work

• If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Work
  • Expect
  • Reward