William E. Rees Quotes

The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

William E. Rees

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• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Work
  • Mad
  • Turn

• There is no such thing as a black middle class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Black
  • Class
  • Middle

• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
  • Silent
  • Silver

• HuhI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. OohI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. I can't turn you loose to nobodyI love you baby, yes I do. Give shakin' mama, I told ya. I'm in love with only you. Gotta Baby do it baby why don't yaI'll give ya everything you want.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Why
  • Baby

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Long
  • May
  • Effort

• Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • World

• We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

  

  Clementa C. Pinckney
  • People
  • America
  • Culture

• My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Up
  • Music
  • Words

• Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

  

  Anohni
  • World
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

  

  Ellar Coltrane
  • Lost

• I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.

  

  Patty Murray
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Good
  • Technology

• It's so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don't think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Important
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Good
  • Motherhood
  • Circle

• I want my mom on 'Scream Queens'. She could play someone who is convinced she's Princess Leila. That could be her disease, and then as a plot twist, we could find out that she actually is Princess Leila.

  

  Billie Lourd
  • She
  • Mom
  • Princess

• I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Business

• The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

  

  William E. Rees
  • Choices
  • Intelligent
  • Circumstances