Nikola Tesla Quotes

We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

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• Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • People
  • Community
  • Place

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Think
  • Me
  • Myself

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Society
  • Simple

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Charity
  • Monday

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hollywood
  • Gangster
  • Classy

• I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Bad
  • Me
  • First

• What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Art
  • You
  • Alive

• The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Business
  • Enough
  • China

• I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Yourself

• The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis

• It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• Generations of black women have anxiously watched as our children walk out into a world set against them. We teach them how to respond to police and how to react to racist comments, knowing that these lessons are not guaranteed to protect our children.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • World
  • Women
  • Children

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Sleep
  • Dance

• Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Moving

• Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

  

  Jan Garbarek
  • Moving

• I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did a lot of literary translation in college. Translation is an art. But for sure writing has always been a part of how I think through my ideas.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Art

• We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

  

  Nikola Tesla
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