Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

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• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

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• The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

  

  Fay Godwin
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• I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

  

  Orson Welles
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• Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

  

  J Mascis
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• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm able to do the 'Robotech' movie, and it's something I grew up watching. To actually be on 'Robotech' was really an experience.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
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• Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
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• Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

  

  LL Cool J
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• Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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• No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I always get bored, and I like to do different things, but it isn't something I'm going to do in the near future.

  

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• There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

  

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• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

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• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

  

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• Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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• People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

  

  Ivy Compton-Burnett
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• The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
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