Zero Quotes - Page 23

• There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

  Maynard Webb

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Sleep

  "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

  Rick Levin

  Games, Benefits, World

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• A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the unknowns we have on Earth.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Thinking, Space, Example

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• I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Fun, Thinking, Earth

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• I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Emotional, Blood, Growing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

  Naomi Klein

  Rooms, Transformation, Economy

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Writing, Men

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2012.

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• Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'

  Mark Yarnell

  Time, Freedom, People

  Mark Yarnell, Rene Reid Yarnell (2010). “Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!”, p.287, Three Rivers Press

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• The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Book, Heart, Years

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• However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Perception, Should, Deflation

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• Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Infinity, Backwards

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• You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

  Tony Kushner

  Drama, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.

  Elvis Costello

  Mother, Father, Mean

  Song: Less Than Zero, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Political, Infinite

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

  Martin Seligman

  Enabling, Plus, Humans

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• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Destiny, World, Obedience

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Nihilism, Doe

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

  Bill Nighy

  America, People, Training

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

  Tony Abbott

  Retirement, Australia, People

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• Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.

  Mark Zandi

  Country, Vegas, Average

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• My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

  Leslie Mann

  Mother, Dad, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

  Elliott Carter

  Paris, London, Bigs

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• The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

  Arthur Laffer

  Income, Economy, Effects

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• [On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

  Warren Spahn

  Running, Home, League

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

  Amos Lee

  Needs, Theory, Knows

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