Edward M. Lerner Quotes

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

Edward M. Lerner

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• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

  

  Ice T
  • Business
  • Start
  • Fruit

• I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Live
  • Society
  • Picture

• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Growing
  • Turn

• Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

  

  Jairam Ramesh

• When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Speak
  • Lessons
  • Tenderness

• My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.

  

  Bernice King
  • She
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Relax

• It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
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