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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
James Altucher
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I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.
Ernest MacBride
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Ignoring expectations makes you look at the world in a fresh way.
K. K. Barrett
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
Rebecca Solnit
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I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
Louis C. K.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
Jack Bruce Cream
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf
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I will be an artist or nothing!
Eugene O'Neill
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The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.
Arancha Gonzalez
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They are doing a lot more (than most new businesses) - not just hoopla, though.
J. M. Roberts
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They're shooting almost 40 percent. That in itself is remarkable, unheard of. It converts to a lot of points. And to have to recycle our team to find a way to match up against them is not easy. It's not conventional.
Phil Jackson
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
William Morris
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Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
Nat Faxon
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
Pablo Sandoval
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My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
Mason Cooley
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I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.
Vincent Price
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I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.
Roz Chast
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
Jack Black
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I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
Buster Keaton
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Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
Lu Yu
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We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.
James Douglas
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch