Paul Graham Quotes

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• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Start
  • Down
  • Eating

• I completely get the drag thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Thing
  • Get
  • Drag

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
  • Happiness

• There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • War
  • Black
  • Nice

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Desire

• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• 'All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.'

  

  Jack Vance

• If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

  

  Ben Carson
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Crazy

• There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Live

• In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.

  

  James Gleick

• I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Rest

• When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

  

  Lee J. Cobb

• Money, you've got lots of friends Crowding round the door When you're gone, spending ends They don't come no more Rich relations give Crust of bread and such You can help yourself But don't take too much.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Help

• You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Die
  • Human being
  • Lived

• I don't get star-struck at all.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Star
  • Get

• Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Science

• Consulting is where product companies go to die.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Die
  • Companies
  • Consulting