It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not … - Eric Schmidt

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I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

Eric Schmidt

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge. . . but their persistence at something.

Looks, Persistence, Separates, Students, Successful

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The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it. '

Invent, Moments, People, See, Space

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

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If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.

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Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.

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Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

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Noam Chomsky

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.

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Wilkie Collins

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. . . but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times. . . the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

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Albert Einstein

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

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Dominic Monaghan

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

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