"If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind."

-- Demetri Martin

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.”
“Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.”

Source : Dialectica, Vol. 2, No. 3/4 (p. 326), 1948.
“The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.”

Source : "Ups and Downs" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2005.
“I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.”
“Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.”
“Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.”
“Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as a co-founder of Genentech, Inc., a company to offer gene-splicing products.”

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