Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
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• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
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• Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Children
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• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
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  • Baseball
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• In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
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  • Bad

• Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
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• When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.

  

  Kate Williams
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• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
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• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  

  Orville Wright
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• I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
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  • City

• I have no family to take care of.

  

  Park Geun-hye
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  • Care
  • Take Care

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
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• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• Well, I think we're getting what we want, we're getting the information that's in it and getting the reasons why there's a big difference between the attorney general and the FBI director and that's the main thrust of our hearing and everything else to find out why there's this big difference and so the committee knows, the Congress knows and the American people know.

  

  Dan Burton
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• When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• We're going to give Rhett Bomar and opportunity to start and see where he takes us.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Opportunity
  • Start

• I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

  

  John Otto Limp Bizkit
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• Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Opportunity
  • Difference
  • Entrepreneurs