Daniel Burrus Quotes
Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
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I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.
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The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.
