Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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I write in a rush of memory.
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I've learned that, as an actor, I have a responsibility to my audience.
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I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.
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In the West, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber are the face of their songs.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
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I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.
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You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
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I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people.
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
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What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.
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Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.
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I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
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Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.
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I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
