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At Stanford, we teach design thinking - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

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• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Feel

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• I really enjoyed working with Mariah, Alfre Woodward's character, because she's a wonderful actor, and I felt we had a natural chemistry that was reflective of real family members.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Real
  • Family
  • She

• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friends
  • Shows
  • Misfortune

• The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Giving
  • Risk
  • Advice

• I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Thanks

• My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Cat

• With brain hacking experiments, I've hacked into Morgan Freeman's brain. He was the most famous and the most nerve wracking because I got really awestruck when I met him, and the moment I was introduced to him, he challenged me there and then to hack his brain.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Brain
  • Famous

• These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

  

  Aulis Sallinen
  • People

• I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Interesting

• Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that play. The playwright, the actors and the audience, that's what we're all there seeking. When it's working, time is destroyed. Sometimes 'Moon,' a play of four hours, would go by in a snap of the fingers.

  

  Jason Robards
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Moon

• I can feel my body is starting to get tired, all that training, which I've been doing three or four times a week since I was eight, and recovery is taking longer.

  

  Carmen Marton
  • Training
  • Tired
  • Recovery

• When SoFi launched in 2011, it focused squarely on the burgeoning student loan market - a market that, unlike housing, had no viable option to refinance both federal and private student loans from higher interest-rate eras.

  

  Kayla Tausche
  • Option

• But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

  

  John Fahey
  • World
  • Important
  • Why

• But you base everything on people you know.

  

  Gena Rowlands
  • People

• The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Work
  • Science
  • Black

• I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Actor
  • William Shakespeare

• The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

  

  James Comey
  • Accountability

• Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Mind
  • Change

• Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Rest

• At Stanford, we teach design thinking - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

  

  Hasso Plattner
  • Standford
  • Design thinking
  • Art of engineering