Nikola Tesla Quotes

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Small

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
  • World
  • Mother
  • Myself

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Losing

• Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Done
  • Never
  • Doubts

• I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Political
  • Food

• At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • End

• I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Rather

• I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • God
  • Believe
  • Ethics

• She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • History
  • Death
  • Fantasy

• Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Brain

• Wise men say that time is like a river. I say time is like a river of SHIT... and as you float down that river in your little canoe, your paddles are getting smaller and smaller.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Men
  • Wise

• Actors are not necessarily smart people.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Smart

• When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • New York
  • Walk

• Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

  

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