Nikola Tesla Quotes
If he Thomas Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
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Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
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I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.
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If he Thomas Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
