- Nov 07, 2020
Person Quotes
On character, focus and what makes a person who they are.
These quotes describe personal identity in different lights: spirituality that exists outside organized religion, competitiveness aimed inward rather than at others, and the wide or narrow focus people bring to their goals. For more, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, one person whose company I enjoy is Charlie Whelan. He and I get on really well together.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baidu Research has three labs - two in Beijing that are already largely built up, and the Silicon Valley one is being built from scratch. We're hiring pretty rapidly, about one person a week, but we are about a month in, so honestly, we haven't done that much work yet.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
With human inspectors, it's difficult to get even the same person to make consistent judgments.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020