Edward Boyden Quotes

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

Edward Boyden

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• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Vision
  • United States
  • Truck

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Simplicity
  • Reliability

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Know

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
  • Worth

• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when I've taught Sunday school classes.

  

  John Thune
  • School
  • Sunday

• I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Job

• I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

  

  Tyler Farr
  • Job

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Failure