Linus Pauling Quotes
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
Quotes to Explore
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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'The Death of Common Sense'.
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These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.
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If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
