Paul Graham Quotes

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Life
  • Different
  • Band

• Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

  

  David Hare
  • Knowledge
  • Wind

• I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • Pool

• Because SBI is so large, serving customers in India's big cities and small rural villages alike, it has a pressing need for better tools and technology to monitor lending risks.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Small
  • Technology

• Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Tired
  • Workout

• As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Stupid

• Whatever I do, I have to put 100 percent of my focus into it because I don't like to do a bad job.

  

  Katie Stevens
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Focus

• You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

  

  George Parsons Lathrop
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nobleness

• Consulting is where product companies go to die.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Die
  • Companies
  • Consulting