Rick Tumlinson Quotes

To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice, and the rays of the sun itself at levels of efficiency that will transform our relationship to our own planet Earth.

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• I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Country
  • Home
  • Years

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Die
  • Wife

• That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Women
  • Goal

• I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Comfort Zone

• The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Way
  • Blood
  • Self-Conscious

• Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Work
  • God
  • Character

• Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Serious

• The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Internet
  • Honest
  • Prosperity

• One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Attempt
  • Calculate
  • Mathematically

• Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

  

  William James
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Existence

• Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Passion
  • Joy
  • Sports

• Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Silence
  • Tradition

• I knew Eddie wasn't feeling very good for the last week, ... He was home and kept saying he wasn't feeling good and we thought it was just 'road tired.' So we thought he just had to rest.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Road
  • Thought
  • Tired

• Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Moment
  • Cat

• I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Country
  • Specialists

• My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!

  

  George Peele
  • Love
  • Change
  • Pray

• As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. From all over the planet they came—from Mexico and Peru and Chile and Argentina, from Oregon and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand and China, from the American North and the American South, from Britain and France and Germany and Italy and Greece and Russia.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • California
  • Planet
  • Mexico

• To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice, and the rays of the sun itself at levels of efficiency that will transform our relationship to our own planet Earth.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
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