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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Comedy
  • Universe
  • Disrespect

• It's not in my nature to be too literal.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Nature

• I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good
  • Great
  • Children

• I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond... with my body.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Band

• I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • Game
  • Feeling
  • Victory

• One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Desire
  • Period

• When I wrestled Randy Orton, that was probably the biggest match of my career at that point, because that was when I had the other shot at the WWE championship.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Career

• If you want to be a crazy person, go for it. But don't impose it on your kids.

  

  Jon Glaser
  • Kids
  • Crazy

• Most pianists listen to about four or five different piano players before they call it quits and say, 'Okay, I've got my thing together.' Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and maybe Chick Corea. Or maybe before that, Oscar Peterson.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Different
  • Together

• We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Women
  • Together

• It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

  

  Marie Lu
  • World

• 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