Dan Poynter Quotes
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.
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The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.
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If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.
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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
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Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.
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True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.
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I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.
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I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
