Ingvar Kamprad Quotes
Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.
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There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.
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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
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I feel like that's so important, to enjoy my own music. Because if I'm not passionate about my music, then it's going to show to the fans.
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Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
