Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
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• You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Feeling
  • Years
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• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Mind
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• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Kind
  • Creative
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• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Feel
  • Actress
  • I Feel

• Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Advice

• Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Up
  • Girl

• 'Halloween' is classic Michael Myers.

  

  Dylan Minnette
  • Halloween

• Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Car

• Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

  

  Keith Henson
  • People
  • Long
  • Family

• I'm constantly working, even when I'm at home.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Home

• The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep them on a leash.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Political

• This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Simple
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• Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

  

  Gennifer Flowers
  • Library
  • Liar

• Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

  

  Louis Zamperini
  • Real
  • Hate
  • Forgiveness

• The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Value

• Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Good
  • Space
  • Flying

• For all of us, the collective bargaining agreement is a big deal. We've seen everything in this league - strikes, free agency and salary caps. For some teams in the league, it's going to be tougher. We'll be one of the teams that it will be tough on.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Free
  • Deal
  • League

• But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Bird
  • Flying
  • Entrepreneur