Daniel Burrus Quotes
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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The dose makes the poison.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
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Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I think Kobe Bryant should be at the top of the (MVP) list. His game is unstoppable.
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Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.
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Ari, it’s time you stopped running.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.
