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Paul Allen Quotes

The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.

Paul Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018

Topics

Science Growing Up You Growing Know

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.

Robert Rauschenberg

Work Time Words I Am People Ideas

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Value Perception Customer Your Very

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

Michael Caine

Me Laugh You Go Hand Get

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

Shirley Manson

Good Voice Learn Enough Powerful

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

Leader Great Men Follow Daring Most

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

Janice Dickinson

Day First Everything Being

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

Janice Dickinson

I Can Legs Neck Wrap Around

'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

Dinesh D'Souza

Opinion You House What If Republican

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Library Tragedy Real Taste Leisure

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

Scott Weiss

Goals Impossible Someone Complicated

The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.

Timothy Noah

Rich You Years Imagine Really Were

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

Future Capitalism Enjoyment Dynamics