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• It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Difference
  • Got

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.

  

  Zendaya
  • School
  • Parents
  • Helping

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Way
  • Potential

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

  

  Gary Wright
  • India
  • Trip
  • Invited

• As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • You
  • Know
  • Story

• I'm always preparing for a regular life.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • Always
  • Regular

• In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Help
  • Brain
  • Humanity

• I’ve lived here for 20 years and I have been a citizen for 10 years. I hope I am a good one. I know I don’t take it for granted. I feel I am an awfully lucky person to be an American and I think that every naturalized American and every person born in this land should kneel on his knees every morning and utter a prayer for being an American.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Good
  • American
  • Hope

• It is very conceivable, that the labor of man alone laid out upon a work, requiring great skill and art to bring it to perfection, may be more productive, in value, than the labour of nature and man combined, when directed towards more simple operations and objects

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Survival

• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.

  

  Jason Moran
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • May
  • Brain

• His brain ached with the want of knowing.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Brain

• With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Player
  • Brain
  • iPod

• Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

  

  Elizabeth Streb
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