Pardis Sabeti Quotes
I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
Quotes to Explore
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
-
Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
-
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
-
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
-
I really hate to write.
-
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
-
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
-
I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
-
I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
-
Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
-
I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
-
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
-
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
-
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
-
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
-
Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
-
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
-
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
-
Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.
-
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.
-
I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
-
Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.
-
I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
