Sebastian Thrun Quotes

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

Sebastian Thrun

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Trying
  • Party
  • Independent

• It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Up
  • God
  • Religion

• We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Relationship
  • Only
  • Threaten

• 'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Lies

• I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Brave

• One is born to be a great dancer.

  

  George Balanchine
  • Great

• Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Problem
  • Care

• Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • May
  • Fear

• Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.

  

  J. B. MacKinnon
  • Enemy
  • Distance
  • Awareness

• I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

  

  O. Henry
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Secret

• We're at a deadlock with a couple of people in the Senate who know everything, ... So we have to do what we have to do to make this work and kick the can down the road for another fight.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Work
  • Couple

• Morals are private. Decency is public.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Moral
  • Privacy
  • Decency

• My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Simple

• I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Doctor
  • My Wife

• I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Said
  • Yellow
  • Duck

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• I think it's absolutely absurd that we're playing on turf, and it's really a slap in the face to women's football by FIFA and just a show of disrespect.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Women
  • Football
  • Disrespect

• Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Respect
  • Forget
  • Authority

• I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Authority
  • Disrespect
  • Gravity