"Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar."

-- L. Tom Perry

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“Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.”
“The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesnâ€™t need to be read. You donâ€™t have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you donâ€™t even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Hereâ€™s every word I spoke for a week. Hereâ€™s a yearâ€™s worth of weather reports... and without ever having to read these things, you understand them.”

Source : "Against Expression: Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation". Poets.org Interview, www.poets.org. February 19, 2011.
“Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.”
“Faced with a choice of stepping up or stepping it down, we are going to step it down.”
“It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.”
“I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.”
“Was thinking of taking a yoga class, then realized I wasn't gay. Whew. Close one.”
“Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra 's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.”

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