David Brin Quotes

Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!

David Brin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1950

Topics

PowerGreatPoliticsCreativeThrive

I found social media was a way for me to open up and show the world who I was and also keep my name out there.

Joel Embiid

Social MediaMeWorldNameMediaUp

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

TiredPeopleNothingCompanyOwn

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Maurice Saatchi

PoliticsKingWorldEyePowerful

I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is such an integral part of our existence.

Amanda Seales

MusicPeopleBlackThinkMusicians

If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.

Amanda Eliasch

HappyBe HappyNobody

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

Mini Grey

LoveControlDifficultFreakWriter

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

Jason Silva

MomentExperienceCreativityIdeas

In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I'd finally be in the mix, living off the subway line, able to go from audition to audition during the day and from late night show to late night show in the wee hours of the morning.

Chris Gethard

HomeMorningDayNightLateLiving

You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.

Christine McVie

YourselfStartYouPointLaughing

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

Chuck Zito

GoodMeTreatSayingBetterYou

From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.

Brian Kilmeade

WorkWomenRedHonorAmericanPilot

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

Bob Saget

FamilyPeopleComedyNowWantWill

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