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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I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.
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The authorities will not stand aside while those with ill intent are herding a witting or unwitting mass of people and inciting them into actions that are inimical to public order, and the peace of mind of the national community.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.
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Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
