"Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?"

--

Source : "Iconoclasts". Documentary, November 16, 2006.

Dean Kamen

#Trying Quotes #Matter Quotes #Waste Quotes

“If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.”
“Where is the harm in the wireless industry?”
“For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.”
“You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.”

Source : Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.150, City Lights Books
“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.”
“I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.”
“Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.”
“It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.”

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