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Jason Silva Quotes

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Jason Silva

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 6, 1982

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Failure Time Moment Imagination Me

An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

Jim C. Hines

Me World Story Short Way Write

I would go on summer vacations visiting family all over the world.

Joakim Noah

Family World Summer Go Over Would

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

John Burroughs

Flower Me Baby Key Physics Earth

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

You Over Starting Starting Over

The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.

Michael Frome

Failure Travel Plan Reason Single

As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

Michael Horse

Work Art Chance You Television Get

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan.

Stephen Kinzer

Border India Now Two Afghanistan

Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.

Stef Wertheimer

Job People Impact You Look Never

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

Travis Kalanick

Time Control Independence You Own

I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.

Tony McCoy

Life Racing Injuries Know Sitting

My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.

Robin Wright

Mother Live House Sometimes Fix Up

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Diane Mott Davidson

Work Me Week Teach Nothing Catering