Aaron Levie Quotes
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
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Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
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I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.
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In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
