Deep Thought Quotes - Page 18

• For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Two, Answers

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

  Robert Breault

  Important, Life Is, Lifetime

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• Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nature, Humor, Independent

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• Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

  David Ogilvy

  Humor, Marketing, Failing

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• The things that matter most are not things.

  Art Buchwald

  Humor, Matter, Things That Matter

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• When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

  Ayn Rand

  Hope, Crazy, Inspiration

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.103, Penguin

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• Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

  Jonas Hiller

  Humor, Fighting, Lucky

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• Nothing is stronger than habit.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Humor, Famous Basketball

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• To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Humor, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.197, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

  Ayn Rand

  Humor, Action, Hypocritical

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• I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Humor, Artist, Thinking

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• Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.

  Jack Canfield

  Children, Humor, Thinking

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• True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

  James Arthur Ray

  Humor, Gone, Wealth

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• Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

  Napoleon Hill

  Humor, Focus, Mind

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• Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

  Christopher McCandless

  Mean, Humor, Circumstances

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• The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Humor, Men

  Aristotle (2015). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• If you want to feel good, be rational.

  Ayn Rand

  Humor, Feel Good, Want

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• When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

  Joyce Brothers

  Humor, Secret

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• Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

  Twyla Tharp

  Humor, Ifs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• ...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Humor, Men

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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• Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

  John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

  Giving Up, Humor, Purpose

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• You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Know Yourself, Ramifications

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• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

  George Scialabba

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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