George Westinghouse Quotes
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.
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If you look at history we've had since I've been in office, in an environment where we haven't had earmarks, we've still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.
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I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.
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I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.
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With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.
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I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.
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When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.
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Some people run away from things.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.
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If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
