George Nelson Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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I'm a television junkie.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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Die Klasse, welche die herrschende materielle Macht der Gesellschaft ist, ist zugleich ihre herrschende geistige Macht. Die Klasse, die die Mittel zur materiellen Produktion zu ihrer Verfügung hat, disponiert damit zugleich über die Mittel zur geistigen Produktion.
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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“Good work instead of long prayers.”
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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
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You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.
