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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• 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

• 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

• The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're going to become so uptight that we can't say nice things to each other, then we've had it!

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Art
  • Nice

• When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Women
  • Trying

• Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Society
  • Democratic
  • Pluralistic

• To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

  

  George Washington
  • Party
  • Circumstances
  • Temper

• The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Cancer
  • Awareness
  • Cruelty

• When I'm done with all of this, I'm going to write a book on it: have a guide to having a life and being on the road. Especially having a family and being on the road.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Life
  • Family
  • Done

• 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