Douglas Brunt Quotes

A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. When I look at my baby pictures, there it is, resting in my crib in the place of a rattle or chew toy.

Douglas Brunt

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LiveMemoriesBabySickLookPlace

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals.

Steve Jurvetson

YouAskSuccessfulGetLikeSounds

Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

Steven Pinker

OpportunityPresentWeaknessYoung

The most troubling loan we had was actually to the 'Octomom'. That was a terrible situation, and we worked very, very hard to move her to another home that they could afford.

Steve Mnuchin

HomeSituationLoanHardHerMove

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Roger Waters

NeverLikeFeltPassengerConfess

You have to be committed to the people and willing to do what is in their best interest even when it isn't in your best interest, and you have to be committed to getting results even if you don't get the credit.

Ron Crumpton

BestPeopleCreditYouResultsGet

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Michael Palin

GreatPeopleWorldReputationYou

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

CareEnoughLongLivedOurShould

People know that I'm going to do what's right.

Lou Barletta

PeopleKnowRightGoing

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle

LifeTogetherWhateverThreadWithin

Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.

Chris Squire

PeopleMeDoingKindSpiritWay

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

ScienceScience FictionPoliticians

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Peter Stuyvesant

SucceedSmallLossRightLegAttack

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