I can’t listen to my own voice, I don’t like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.
CHERInvention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
WIZ KHALIFA -
I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I’m doing the best I can.
BILLY GARDELL -
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
RALPH ELLISON -
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
BODHIDHARMA -
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT -
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
ALAN ALDA -
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
EDWARD DE BONO -
My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.
AARON BRUNO -
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
URSULA K. LE GUIN -
You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT -
Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALA -
Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself, you don’t really know what the target is.
MS DHONI -
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEAD -
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
TONI MORRISON -
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
HUDSON TAYLOR -
[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONES -
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS -
Certain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques.
BEN KATCHOR -
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUME -
If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit!
MICHAEL JORDAN -
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
GORE VIDAL