Jeff Bezos Quotes
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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
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I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant problem.
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I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
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To me, I go out there, and I do what I trained. We prepare so long for that moment, so it's just kind of exciting.
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This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
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Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.
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Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
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We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
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See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.
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The one thing worse than accepting environmental damage is a lack of optimism for the future.
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But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
