Brian Christian Quotes

And if you’re just operating by habit, then you’re not really living.

Brian Christian

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• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Writing
  • Taken
  • Capacity

• I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Dad

• Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Education
  • Football
  • Fight

• I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Real
  • Family

• Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Writing
  • You
  • Gambling

• The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Movies

• If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Intelligent

• Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Question

• The classic story of the Univision network is the mainstream pretends that the network doesn't exist, but then when it comes to sweeps or the ratings, they just have millions and millions more viewers than ABC, Fox, and CBS combined; it's that kind of a success story.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Success

• To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Effort
  • Collaboration
  • Matrix

• My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, 'Don't walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck,' or, 'If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you're in trouble.'

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

  

  David M. Shoup
  • God
  • Remember

• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Anger
  • Quick
  • Subtle

• In Catch-22, the figure of the black market and the ground of war merge into a monster presided over by the syndicate. When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood. (p. 211)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Money
  • War
  • Black

• If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Waste

• We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • Freedom

• We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Habit
  • Act
  • Excellence

• And if you’re just operating by habit, then you’re not really living.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Habit