Nikola Tesla Quotes

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

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• For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • High
  • Earth

• Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Why
  • Home
  • Dying

• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Power
  • Guys
  • Fine

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Book
  • House
  • Lost

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Power
  • Help
  • Know

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Time
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• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Energy

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

  

  Halsey
  • Person
  • Popular
  • Year

• So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Reality
  • Deep

• My moral standing is lying down.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Moral
  • Lying Down

• O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Should
  • Abuse

• Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Law
  • Weapon
  • Wished

• Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone (Michael Moore) who actually embodies all of those qualities.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • American
  • Taken
  • Stupid

• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Law
  • Belief
  • Labour