Chiura Obata Quotes

#1. It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

Damien Chazelle

#2. In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

Boots Riley

#3. I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

Noah Baumbach

#4. There is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

Brandon Mull

#5. Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

Douglas Preston

#6. Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

Plutarch

#7. When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Edmund Burke

#8. No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

Benjamin Graham

#9. Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

LZ Granderson

#10. Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it.

Marcus Aurelius