Valleys Quotes - Page 19

• The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Ideas, Design, Watches

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• Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

  Daphne Koller

  Ethos, People, Making Money

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• We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Technology, Opportunity, Community

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• In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Thinking, Sound, Looks

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• Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

  Michael Arrington

  Government, Creating, Understanding

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• Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.

  Mike Matheny

  Character, Forged

  Mike Matheny, Jerry B. Jenkins (2015). “The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life”, p.155, Three Rivers Press

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• When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Writing, Ties

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• The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

  Oswald Chambers

  Height, Drudgery

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.40, Discovery House

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• No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.

  J.H. Wyman

  Stories, Opinion, Love Story

  Source: collider.com

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• Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

  William Thorsell

  Memories, Character, Thinking

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• Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Men

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• Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
  All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  League, Half, Six

  "The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

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• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  Joey Bishop

  Mother, Sunset, Names

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• That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

  Andy Kaufman

  Fun, Thinking, Events

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• It's a real valley when I talk about veal. And calf roping. People were sensitive about calf roping. Which I think is quite funny.

  Gary Gulman

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Echoes, Sound, Agree

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2013

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• When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was pretty young, and we were doing acting and improvisation. But no, no I didn't go to RADA, I didn't do that. But I do now work with an acting coach, primarily for the initial intellectual connection to the material.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Space, Intellectual, Acting

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• The game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Games, Keys, Canyons

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• So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.

  Dan Millman

  Journey, Soul, Safe

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.110, H J Kramer

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• Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Swimming, Men

  Dwight L Moody (1998). “God's Abundant Grace”, p.14, Moody Publishers

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• I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.

  Jon M. Chu

  Jobs, Growing Up, Hero

  Source: collider.com

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• The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Romance, Dollars, World

  "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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• I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

  Marc Andreessen

  World, Someday, Silicon

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• I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

  John Muir

  Blessed, Rocks, People

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.78, Orbis Books

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• Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!

  Sid Waddell

  Jockeys, Darts, Wilson

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