Painstakingly Difficult Quotes & Sayings

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat. — Viswanathan Anand

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. — Dee Hock

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars. — V.S. Ramachandran

Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over. — Stuart J. Russell

There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.' — Johnny Depp

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not. — Paulo Coelho

In truth we re-create our reputation every day. Journalists with thirty years of credibility have washed their careers down the drain with one plagiarized paragraph. — Anonymous

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life. — Christopher Walken

While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it's almost as if the magic number of how much cash you've managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business's true worth. — Maelle Gavet

The world is finite, harmonious, and good. — Plotinus

So it's really for us about new products, because we have released a lot of new products. — Sanjay Kumar

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal. — Ann Coulter

When considering taking up a fight against [the] elite class, it is important to remember that they are temperamentally inclined toward murder. This tendency should be kept in mind, not with the thought of doing as they do, but rather the contrary: so as not to be moved by the sacred ideas, the sacred principles, and more generally the beautiful souls of the executioners. — Rodolfo Walsh

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion. — Agnes De Mille

Every flower can flourish with fertile soil and water. — Lailah Gifty Akita