Generating Quotes
127 quotes by 117 authors
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Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the…
— Greil Marcus
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Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value…
— Neelie Kroes
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Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
— Umberto Eco
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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
— Ronald Fisher
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You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of…
— David Lee Roth
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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After…
— M. John Harrison
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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional…
— Robert Trout
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Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic…
— Dmitry Medvedev
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In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their…
— Daniel Yergin
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Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.
— Marty Neumeier
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Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,…
— Ralph Nader
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In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what…
— David Brin
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I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.
— Tarthang Tulku
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to…
— Robert Grudin
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating…
— Otto Schily
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
Who Wrote These Generating Quotes
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