Giants Quotes - Page 25

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

Peter Thiel

Want, Starting, New Business

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I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

Guy Maddin

Autumn, Winter, Long

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On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.

Sam Keen

Children, Mean, Men

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Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Dennis Miller

Foam, Mechanic, Fingers

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Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

Dave Barry

Teenager, Rain, Sarcasm

"Whining Down The Country's Roads With Dave Barry And Family". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. September 1, 1991.

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When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems

Dalai Lama

Gratitude, Attitude, Compassion

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I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.

Matthew Rhys

Acting, Sound, Filters

"‘The Americans’ star Matthew Rhys: Philip would defect ‘in a heartbeat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 4, 2015.

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The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.

Matt Cullen

Fun, Reading, Kids

"A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.

Andrew Kreisberg

Book, Reading, Character

Source: collider.com

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Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Robert A. Heinlein

Moon, Men, Thinking

"The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Fall, Night, Men

Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Math, Shoulders, I Can

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The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.

John B. S. Haldane

Flower, Past, Evil

"Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, en.wikiquote.org. February 4, 1923.

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In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...

Hyman Rickover

Strong, Real, Long

"The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.

John August

Growing Up, Men, Space

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Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Blow, Rocks, Air

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I was down in Tampa and it just wasn't a good setup for me, all things considered. But it also gave me the opportunity to get out of there and kind of start over. The Giants, fortunately for me, gave me the opportunity, another shot. I'm just trying to make the most of it.

Pat Burrell

Opportunity, Starting Over, Trying

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Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.

Charles Lindbergh

Ocean, Flower, Men

Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

Robert Anton Wilson

Thinking, Might, Windmills

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A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

Bill Moyers

Running, Believe, Eye

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Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,
Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison
That keeps you from achieving what you want.

Tony Robbins

Keys, Locks, Want

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I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky ... a pulsating force of incredible energy.

David Arquette

Thinking, Sky, Energy

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Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.

Bernie Sanders

Book, Magazines, Television

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The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

Ned Colletti

Baseball, League, Chance

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As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.

James Purdy

Summer, New York, Stupid

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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