Wes Jackson Quotes
If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
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Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.
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Throughout the day, I'm always thinking about 500, the team, and how we can do things harder/better/faster/stronger.
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In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.
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It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.
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If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
