Chip Heath Quotes
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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No one is India.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
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What questions do I want my audience to ask?
