Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Quotes

The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

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• I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Peace

• I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Good
  • School
  • Friends

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
  • More
  • Vietnam

• The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Flying

• In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Food
  • Winter

• What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Father
  • Want
  • Working

• When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Done
  • Going
  • Before

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• I quit 'Qubool Hai' at the right time. When 'Alone' was offered to me, I was learning production and direction. I don't think not being seen on TV for more than a year will affect my popularity or 'Alone.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Learning

• Coming back doing interviews is weird. It’s like an actor who takes a year off and just goes home, settles down, does some gardening, wakes up in the morning, worries about what to have for breakfast, then suddenly you’re plonked back in the middle of it all.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Home
  • Morning

• I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Food
  • City
  • Farmer

• One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.

  

  Jacques Monod
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mistake
  • Choice
  • Danger

• Whether it's something with a chunkier heel or a moto style, you need a great pair of boots.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Great
  • Style

• You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Desire

• We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Success

• You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

  

  Daniel Snyder
  • Time
  • Long
  • Success

• The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.

  

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • Success
  • Performance
  • Bounded