Alex Pentland Quotes

When people are working together doing the same thing in synchrony with others—e.g., rowing together, dancing together—our bodies release endorphins.

Alex Pentland

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• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Model

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Like
  • Well

• To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • World
  • Energy

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Injuries

• I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Kind
  • Going

• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• The movies were custard compared to politics.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Politics
  • Movies
  • Were

• I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Fearless

• When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Impact

• The hijab has nothing to do with moral values. A woman's moral values are reflected in her eyes, in the way she talks, and in the way she walks. They put on a hijab and go dancing, wearing high heels and lipstick. They wear tight jeans that show their bellies.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • She
  • High
  • Eyes

• I'm here for the long-term, that's for sure. I think this championship is growing massively. It's only going to get more and more interesting.

  

  Jean-Eric Vergne
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Growing

• At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Together
  • Song
  • Risk

• Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Claudia

• If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Job

• I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Internet

• When people are working together doing the same thing in synchrony with others—e.g., rowing together, dancing together—our bodies release endorphins.

  

  Alex Pentland
  • Together
  • Working
  • Endorphins