Harper Reed Quotes

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

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• Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Water
  • Powerful
  • Ocean

• Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Girl
  • Competition
  • Australia

• When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Why
  • Moment

• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Never
  • Silent
  • Tyranny

• To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • May
  • First
  • Example

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

  

  Larry Doby
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Together

• If you can’t feel it, it must be real.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Real

• It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where Jesus did not treat women either equal or superior to men.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Black

• I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Morning

• Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Stupid

• I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • Funny

• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Mistake
  • Anxiety

• I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Time
  • She

• I do not read newspaper comics unless they happen to be out when I visit my parents, but I follow several online comics, which I check every morning while I drink my coffee and wake up for the day.

  

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Morning

• Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Up
  • Time

• In the production, it's my job to find every flaw and the ones that can't be fixed, and that's why my job kind of sucks. My first reaction to everything is: here's the 20 things that are wrong with it. Unfortunately, that's how I have to live.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • Live
  • Why
  • Job

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

  

  Plutarch
  • Soldiers
  • Shut Up
  • Disturb

• I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Song
  • Mean

• By doing good we become good.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Technology startups