Jacque Fresco Quotes

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.

Jacque Fresco

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FutureEnoughHometownInformation

My favourite English player of my time was Paul Gascoigne. I interviewed him several times, always entertaining.

John Motson

TimeHimAlwaysEntertainingEnglish

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

LifeBeautyTruthPoetryCriticism

In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

Maurice Allais

LifeFatherWarYouthMarchAugust

When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.

Michael Hayden

WordsGovernmentDirectorHereBeen

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

John Tyler

ThoughtYouEmbraceMoreSheAlways

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

Stephen Kinzer

FaceBeyondDifficultyEnglishFar

Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

CultureParanoidIdeologyObsessed

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Tony Robbins

LifeSuccessLivePainPeopleYou

We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

Rose George

WaterOceanFishingManImpactPlay

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Dontrelle Willis

WinI CanWhateverGetEvenTakes

First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.

Daya

ConfidenceIntegrityCompassionLady

I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.

Deborah Mailman

LifeWorkFamilyJobMeMy Life

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