Albert Einstein Quotes
I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
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I think America is on the right track.
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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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Most businesses -- like most of anything else in life -- fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. When you compare great companies with good ones, many widely practiced business norms turn out to correlate with mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into the social sectors?
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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We'll review President Obama's plan [on closing Guantanamo], but since it includes bringing dangerous terrorists to facilities in U.S. communities, he should know that the bipartisan will of Congress has already been expressed against that proposal.
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The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
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I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
