Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Alfred North Whitehead

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• Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Kids
  • Space
  • Crazy

• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Day

• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movies
  • Down
  • Million

• In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Help
  • Small
  • City

• When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Work
  • Live
  • Children

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Power
  • Society
  • Political

• I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Said
  • Fiction

• Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Clothes
  • Shopping
  • Go

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Yes

• The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reality

• Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Country
  • Business
  • Community

• There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Want
  • China

• They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Good

• Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Pregnancy

• The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Business
  • True

• Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Business
  • Age
  • Hand

• I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • Book
  • Political
  • Communication

• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Business
  • Future
  • Science