John Petrucci (John Peter Petrucci) Quotes
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
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We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
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Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.
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Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
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My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the wood stove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
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I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.
