Larry Niven Quotes

2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)

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• In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • History
  • Will
  • Holocaust

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Independent
  • Intellectual

• To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Moment
  • Sound
  • Capture

• Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Human
  • Brand

• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Love
  • Free
  • For Her

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Help

• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Since government supposedly can do whatever it sets out to do, the president should sign an executive order outlawing death. However, as with all other laws, Congress should be exempt.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Death

• Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World

• I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Today
  • Daughter

• When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.

  

  Edward Everett

• Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Death
  • Single
  • Joy

• There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • High
  • Path

• Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • May
  • Stop
  • Thoughts

• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  

  Cathy Hopkins
  • Ship
  • Come In
  • Swim Out

• Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Job

• I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Want
  • Day
  • Everyone

• If you want something done, ask nicely. If a subordinate forgets to perform a task, don’t take it personally; just remind them nicely. In any organization, everyone has a “to-do” list. While juggling these tasks, some things will inevitably fall through the cracks. When that happens, don’t assume that the subordinate is lazy or stupid. Simply re-engage them on the task and, if necessary, emphasize why it’s a priority.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Organization
  • Task

• 2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)

  

  Larry Niven