Kevin Kelly Quotes

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

Kevin Kelly

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• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
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• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
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• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Me
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• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

  

  Larry Brown
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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
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• I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Like
  • See
  • Someone

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Father
  • Me
  • Habit

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • You
  • Sound

• When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Long
  • Way
  • Elegance

• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Television

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
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• I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Life
  • Always
  • Explore

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

  

  Claire Denis
  • People
  • Experience

• When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • People
  • Relationship

• You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Silence

• An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Help
  • Relationship
  • Environment