Nikola Tesla Quotes

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
— Nikola Tesla
I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
Angelina Jolie
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.
Angelina Jolie
I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
Brian Boitano
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.
Gloria Vanderbilt
I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.
Grover Norquist
Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.
Kristin Armstrong
I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
Mickey Rourke
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
Nikki Grimes
I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.
Paul Schneider
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.
Sharon Salzberg
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Susie Orbach
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley