“When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.” Quote by Robert Kiyosaki
“For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.” Genocide Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.” WorldChildrenGrowing UpWorstFemale Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“We should be willing to spend the money in return for the innovation.” Innovation Author:Marcia Angell
“Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation of their own products, and that's a conflict of interest. I think the industry needs to be regulated, but I've never suggested taking it out of the market altogether.” ThinkingCountryInterestInfluenceConflictPharmaceutical Author:Marcia Angell
“Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".” PeopleChanceMarriedToughSuicideCarefulDramaticDivorcedCommitting Suicide Author:Billy Corgan
“I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.” DoneSucceedOkayMusicalParadigm Author:Billy Corgan
“I should watch network television, or daytime television, because I'm not sure who all these people are who keep getting referred to in blogs and newspapers. I better get myself culturally attuned.” PeopleNot Sure Author:David Byrne
“It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical and economic challenges in solving the world's energy problems and the associated environmental issues.” ImportantDifferentProblemEnergyChallengesEconomicEnvironmentalDebateRealistic Author:Lennart Bengtsson
“I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible.” ScientistImportanceI Have LearnedSkeptic Author:Lennart Bengtsson
“Throughout my life, I have been fascinated by predictability and frustrated by our inability to predict. I don't believe it makes sense for our generation to believe or pretend that we can solve the problems of the future because do not understand what these problems will be. Just do this thought experiment: Imagine you're in month of May 1914, and try to work out a plan of action for the next 100 years! Hardly anything will make sense.” TryingBelieveProblemActionImagineWork OutMake SenseFrustratedPredictability Author:Lennart Bengtsson