Kevin Kelly Quotes
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
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She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!'
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Self-doubt, which is the artist’s bitterest enemy.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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Freedom to travel, freedom to choose where one wishes to work and live, these are still violated in the case of millions of kolkhoz workers, and in the case of hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tartars, who thirty years ago were cruelly and brutally deported from the Crimea and who to this day have been denied the right to return to the land of their fathers.
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They communicate, but their communication system is through touch, posture, looks – body language you could call it, but it goes a bit deeper than that. They can learn 400 or more signs in American sign language.
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Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word 'race' has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.
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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
