Esther Dyson Quotes

I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

Esther Dyson

• Confidence
• Failure
• Achievement
• Scared
• Successes

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• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Good
  • Been
  • Ourselves

• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • World
  • Real
  • Friend

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

  

  J Allard
  • Done
  • Holiday
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• Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
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• Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

  

  Ram Charan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • America
  • Opportunity

• When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Issues
  • Had
  • Teens

• Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• Science fiction is not formulaic.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • Fiction

• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Men

• When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

  

  Harry Belafonte

• 'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Friends
  • Faith
  • Friday

• We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Education
  • Inspiration
  • Fool

• A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Good
  • Mind
  • True

• I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • She
  • Kids

• I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Up
  • Why
  • Growing

• But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.

  

  Allen West
  • Country
  • America
  • Today

• Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Children
  • Home
  • America

• The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Mind
  • Confidence
  • Literature

• Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Achievement

• There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Day
  • Mood

• I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Confidence
  • Failure
  • Achievement