Clive Cussler Quotes

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

Clive Cussler

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• The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Trade
  • Contract
  • Lens

• But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Better
  • Say

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

  

  Cam
  • School
  • She
  • Mom

• It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Family
  • You
  • Name

• Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Care

• What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Law
  • Justice

• Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Way
  • Child
  • Survive

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • Life
  • Want
  • Always

• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Long
  • Play
  • Start

• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Stop
  • Doctor

• I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Musician

• Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Perfect
  • Matter
  • Impossible

• If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Strong

• Justin alludes to his conversion, indicating that originally it was Christians’ martyrdom that showed him they deserved to be believed.34 They were willing to die for what they held dear. Of how many people can that be said? Or, to put it differently, how many martyrs for Zeus do we hear about?

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • People
  • Christians
  • Believed

• To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.

  

  Debra L. Reed
  • People
  • Leadership

• Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

  

  David Neeleman
  • People
  • Stock

• They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

  

  John Morley
  • Great
  • Business
  • Learning

• Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.

  

  William Shockley
  • Individual
  • Intellectual
  • Pragmatic

• I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

  

  Clive Cussler