Shawn Fanning Quotes

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

Shawn Fanning

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• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

  

  Sam Weller
  • May
  • Age
  • Deep

• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Free
  • Culture

• There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Different
  • Hope

• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Conclusion
  • Iraq

• The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Play
  • Lazy
  • Mediocre

• "I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Great
  • Catholic

• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up

• Satisfy the deep subconscious needs of your customers - to feel important, to feel valued, respected and worthwhile

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Deep
  • Feels

• Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Remind

• Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Way
  • Pray
  • Meat

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Wonder
  • Needs
  • Embrace

• I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Prepared

• If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

  

  Shawn Fanning
  • Musician
  • Prepared
  • Programmers