Stewart Brand Quotes

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

Stewart Brand

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• If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • You
  • Feeling

• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Character
  • Game
  • Girl

• That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good
  • Why
  • Light

• Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Support

• What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Business
  • Hand

• My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Today
  • Feeling

• I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • America
  • Risk

• Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa
  • Believe
  • Broken
  • Lawyer

• Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Today

• Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Beginning
  • Wise

• History is one damn thing after another.

  

  Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
  • History
  • Damn
  • Another Life

• He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Temptation

• The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.

  

  R. Heber Newton
  • Work
  • May
  • She

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

  

  Ze Frank

• I run and run and run. Past the hospital, through the garden, past a pond. And to the cold metal wall. I stop, gulping at the air, my heart racing in my ears. I reach up with one hand and touch the wall. My fingers curl into a fist, but it falls weakly to my side. And that's when I realize there is no where to run. 'But', my heart whispers, 'there is Elder.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Running
  • My Heart
  • Hospital

• When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Men
  • Done

• It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Needs
  • Forgiving
  • Please

• There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Sight
  • Draw
  • Labyrinth