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
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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 -
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
Ram Charan
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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 -
When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
Joanne Rowling -
Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
Omari Hardwick -
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 -
We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Bob Marley -
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
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I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
Clyde Tombaugh -
I thrive under pressure.
Lori Wilde -
When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
Kevin Costner -
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
Betty Ford -
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
Danny Glover -
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
John Henry Newman
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If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Susan Olsen -
I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.
Jason Mraz -
I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.
Tim Johnson -
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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