Eric Weiner Quotes
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
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At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing. This is why all Puritans are democrats and all democrats are Puritans.
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I want to run until I can't run.
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I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
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Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.
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I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
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It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
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If it wasn't for the fans I would probably be bartending somewhere.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.
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What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels.
