"The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people"
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"I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve."
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"Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out."
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"The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious."
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"No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on."
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"Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance."
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"Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems."
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"I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe."
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"Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four."
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"I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy."
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"Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status."
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"In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives."
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"All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me."
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"I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!"
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"I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight."
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"I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art."
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"I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney."
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"I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends."
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"The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances."
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"Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em."
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