Ben Lerner Quotes

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

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• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Technology
  • New
  • Jump

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Value
  • Production
  • YouTube

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  

  Xavi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Football

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Single
  • Care

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Sea

• Don't look back!

  

  Zane Grey

• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Learning

• For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes - including those for social security and unemployment compensation - and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes - principally on CO

  

  Al Gore

• Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.

  

  Alvin Martin
  • Done
  • Job
  • Mourinho

• It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

  

  Kanye West
  • World
  • Bad

• Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Present
  • Goal
  • Goals

• We should set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and we can not let these problems hand on from generation to generation.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Future
  • Political
  • Eyes

• Harry Dresden: Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, the ghosts of indictment past, present and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.'

  

  Jim Butcher
  • True
  • Future
  • Past

• The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Future
  • Brave
  • Fainthearted