Bill Gates Quotes
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
Quotes to Explore
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.
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You can't be born again, but you can change.
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There are 2 main things I've learned about following the Holy Spirit: It will never be easy. It will never be boring.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game.
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The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
