Top 59 Ken Jennings Quotes
#1. If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.
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#2. By putting others first the Serving Leader is able to catalyze the creation of high- performance teams.
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#3. I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
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#4. The real cocktail party conversation would probably go something like this:
"Actually, I have a degree in geography."
"Geography? Wow, I'm terrible with maps. I bet YOU know all your state capitals, though!"
(Geographer's smile freezes, left eye starts to twitch uncontrollably.)
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#5. Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
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#6. I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.
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#7. One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.
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#8. Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.
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#9. If you never open a map until you're lost, you're missing out on all the fun.
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#11. We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'
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#12. Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
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#13. Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact.
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#14. The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
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#15. I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
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#16. The leader turns the pyramid onto its head in order to serve others.
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#17. If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?
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#18. What are those bulb things you're slicing?"
"You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.
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#19. The commercial break before Final Jeopardy is usually the only time that the show stops tape. You're given as long as you want to do the math required to make your wager.
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#20. Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.
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#21. (Trunk-or-treating, for those who don't know, is just like trick-or-treating, except with cars instead of houses, lame decorations instead of awesome ones, and no fun instead of fun.)
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#22. Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats of Buicks
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#23. You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
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#24. When a leader keeps personal ego in check it builds the confidence and self-esteem of others.
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#25. You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
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#26. It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
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#27. It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
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#28. If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
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#29. The great thing about knowing stuff is that anyone can do it.
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#30. pg. 245 ...there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia.
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#31. For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
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#32. We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
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#33. Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
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#35. There's just something hypnotic about maps.
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#36. Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.
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#37. I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.
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#38. The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing ...
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#39. In this country, we were not into detail. Europe developed detail." "Why do you think that is?" "Weather. The whole history of England consists of finding things to do out of the weather. Which tells you why Russia was even worse. That's why Russian novels have 182 characters: bad weather.
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#40. It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
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#41. For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
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#42. There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall.
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#43. I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.
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#45. To serve the many, you first serve the few.
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#46. As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
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#47. I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.
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#48. When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.
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#49. The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.
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#50. There were two problems with this idea. First, it led to crappy "virtual reality" movies like Virtuosity and The Lawnmower Man. And second, in the long run, it turned out to be totally wrong.
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#51. The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it's the active Serving Leader that makes the critical difference.
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#52. I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"
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#53. Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they're also the places where we're nearest to one another.
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#55. When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
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#56. I pick up Dylan. He certainly takes after his father: about three-quarters of his body weight seems to be head, and three-quarters of that is ears.
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#57. Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
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#58. During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
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#59. I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
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