"Research: the distance between an idea and its realization."

-- David Sarnoff

#Distance Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Realization Quotes

“It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.”
“How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.”
“My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking,”

Source : "Sammy Davis Jr". The Oral Cancer Foundation, February 6, 2008.
“War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula”
“I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.”
“A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?”
“In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".”
“I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.”

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