Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
Lewis H. Lapham
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
Garth Brooks
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
Hamid Karzai
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen
I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
Nargis Fakhri
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
Ursula Burns
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreesen
Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
Patrick Lencioni
Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
Samuel Barnett
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
Jackie Mason
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
James Turrell
If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk
I don't pay attention to the ratings.
Martha Plimpton
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
Chris Adami
My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television.
Bobby Flay
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
Lewis H. Lapham
