Nikola Tesla Quotes

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Nikola Tesla

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• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Day
  • Decision

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Where

• The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Worst
  • Gone
  • ERA

• You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dress

• My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Vision
  • Nation
  • India

• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • God
  • Different

• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Certain struggles never end.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Never
  • End
  • Struggles

• Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Women
  • Best
  • Step

• On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Father

• I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Action
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Proud

• That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Talk
  • Poets

• Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Woman
  • Ignore
  • Civilization