Kevin Kelly Quotes

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Kevin Kelly

• Time
• Future
• Past

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Law
  • Just
  • Top

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Learnt

• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Patience

• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Fool
  • Down
  • Feet

• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Life
  • Player
  • Childhood

• The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Value
  • Production
  • YouTube

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

  

  Aleksander Kwasniewski
  • Good
  • Different
  • American

• You imagine that, going into such a huge American series, you will come up against a lot of egos, but it was the complete opposite on '24,' a dream team.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • Up
  • American
  • Dream

• I love kale. Genuinely. I really am glad that I have a platform to express that. I think a good raw kale salad is always just a meaty mouth feel. I also really like kelp noodle pasta with a little kale on top.

  

  Megan Amram
  • Good

• The key with a full-skirt shape is to balance it out with a great figure-hugging top.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Great
  • Balance
  • Key

• For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past