Geoffrey West Quotes

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

Geoffrey West

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CityBehaviorYouWithoutSystem

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

Jimmy Lai

GoodPeopleVoiceMediaYouWill

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

Jenny Holzer

SleepTeaMeNightThinkingBack

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

Andrew Garfield

LoveImpossibleStorySomeoneYou

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

John McAfee

AngerAngryPeopleCreateAnything

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Michael Baumgartner

TraditionYouAbortionVoteBox

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Stephen Covey

EducationGoodSchoolGradesWant

When I watch a movie, someone's beauty isn't what engages me: it's what's going on internally. And I imagine it's what the audience thinks, too.

Toni Collette

BeautyMeSomeoneAudienceGoing

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Lucy Larcom

WorkEnthusiasmLaborPrivilegeAim

I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.

Dierks Bentley

MusicTimeWeirdAttentionLoseNew

I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Doug Harvey

GreatComePlateMediocreUmpire

One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.

Chiranjeevi

SeedsCorruptionCongressOtherBoth

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

Anton Yelchin

WorkRelationshipNeverDifficult

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