Gayla Reid Quotes
It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.
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I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.
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Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
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It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.
