Carl Sagan Quotes
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
Quotes to Explore
-
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
-
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
-
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
-
I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
-
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
-
I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
-
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
-
Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
-
All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
-
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
-
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
-
You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
-
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
-
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
-
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
-
People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
-
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
-
Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
-
I'm afraid of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.
-
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
-
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
-
I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
-
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
