Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went… — Alberto Salazar Copy Share Image
To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball,… — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was… — Andrea Phillips Copy Share Image
Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
