Tim Gunn Quotes
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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Education is very important to me.
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.
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When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
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Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
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Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.
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Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.
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Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.
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With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
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I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.
