- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to be able to pay your bills; otherwise, you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
- Clamor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?
- Exceeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we develop our energy policies in the United States to generate our energy clean, then I think we're going to really move to a world that all of us want, and that is a sustainable future.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more people realize the importance of economic growth, near-term and long-term in the U.S., and the competitiveness with other countries around the world.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020