Sharon Begley Quotes

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Place
  • Anxiety
  • Youth

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Feel
  • Coming

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Present
  • Gossip

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • You
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Work
  • Day
  • Things

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Believe
  • Immigration

• I set up playdates, and I'm a morning greeter for the car-pool line. I also make albums with the family photos. When the kids get older and go on their way, we'll have all those pictures to revel in.

  

  David Gregory
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • People
  • Good
  • Science

• The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Freedom

• I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

  

  Bram Cohen
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.

  

  Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Simple

• My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

  

  Brian Austin Green
  • Music
  • God
  • Father

• I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • Mind
  • English
  • Basketball

• I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement. So we must understand that whenever there is intolerance, this comes from an irreligious mind. It is not created by religion, and it is not in the mind of the religious person.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Mind
  • Religious

• In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Job
  • Information

• The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Mind
  • Information
  • Computer