Ray Kurzweil Quotes

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

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• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Moving On

• My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Reason

• I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Made

• I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Time
  • Done

• The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Joy

• I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.

  

  Benicio Del Toro

• We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Lost

• Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Time
  • Today
  • Career

• I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • People
  • Experience

• The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

  

  Jacques Delors
  • Driving

• Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.

  

  Kevin Kwan

• I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Country
  • Hope

• I can be walking down the street, and someone will stop me and ask me for one of my hugs. They feel like I'm their friend, which I love - though sometimes my kids get a little weirded out by it.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Kids
  • Stop
  • Friend

• For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.

  

  Max von Laue
  • Power
  • Strong

• I don't think about competition. I am definitely attracted to not just playing a regular character - I don't know there's any such thing as "regular. In American Crime, I get to play a runaway who's living with her pimp in North Carolina and she's a prostitute, but she's a victim of human trafficking because she's under 18. I like those roles. That's what I wanted; I wanted to play someone that was a challenge.

  

  Ana Mulvoy-Ten
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Competition

• NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Lies

• Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Control

• We're on the cusp of a revolution, if organizations don't allow more flexibility, more autonomy, they're just going to keep losing (women).

  

  Cary Cooper
  • Revolution
  • Losing
  • Organizations

• What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
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