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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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.
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Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
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My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.
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I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.
