Unlikely Quotes - Page 9

• If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Work Out, Joining

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Thinking, Technology

  Alan Lightman (2005). “A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit”, p.115, Vintage

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• I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

  Nick Earls

  Real, Writing, Magazines

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.

  Ann Goldstein

  Decision, Sound, Nuance

  Source: time.com

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• At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Thinking, Circles

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

  Walter Abish

  Truth, Brain, Accepting

  Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Discovery, Transition, Cases

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• By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Investing, Discounts

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• Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

  Ovid

  Swim, Hook, Fishes

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• It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

  Mary Douglas

  Organized, Organized Religion

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• Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.

  Joseph Lowery

  Moving, Tired, White

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• In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

  Brian Herbert

  Hero, Battle, Heat

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.353, Macmillan

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• Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Feelings, Forget

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• It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

  Epictetus

  Men, Shells, Should

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book I, Chapter 20,

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• If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

  Bruce Kovner

  Traders, Hard, Ifs

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• If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything

  Robert Johnson

  Lunch, Ifs

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• Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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• Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

  Stephen K. Hayes

  Art, Dark, Japan

  Stephen K. Hayes (2011). “The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Art”, p.33, Tuttle Publishing

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• A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

  Edward de Bono

  Progress, Answers, Littles

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, Impact, People

  Gwynne Dyer (2010). “Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats”, p.8, Oneworld Publications

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• Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  New York, Struggle, Home

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• War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Peace, War, Literature

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• Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

  Charles Sturt

  Country, Men, Space

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.48

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• I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

  Sheridan Smith

  Mind, Predictable

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• We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Technology, Skills, Greed

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