Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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CreativityWorldRunResourcesKids

I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

Jennifer Coolidge

CharacterMyselfWomanI AmI Can

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Maya Lin

LifeLearningMoneyYouOnlyAbout

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

John Lydon

DailySadAdventurePlaceSkill

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

Michael Eisner

BusinessBeachPeopleMindFaceYou

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

John Zorn

HappinessChildrenSayWhyTortured

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

John Sterling

IntelligenceInstinctIncapable

If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.

Amy Morin

PositiveChangeFailureTimeFace

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Tony Buzan

ChildrenBrainThinkDiscouraged

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

AdversityCharacterButterflyPeople

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Jon Krakauer

StartBookGoingIdeaNo IdeaAny

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

DeForest Kelley

SonYouSeeBaptistMinister

I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.

Brian Fallon

RichYouSaidHardAlwaysWhatever

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