Thomas A. Edison Quotes

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Community
  • Banking

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Understand
  • Ryan

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
  • Experiences
  • Shock

• Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Hammer
  • Toilet

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
  • Friends
  • See
  • Goodbye

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Names
  • Early

• Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Power
  • Change
  • Universal