Peteras Quotes & Sayings

Livingston: Some aspects of business turned out to be less of a mystery than you had thought. What did you find you were better at than you thought? Graham: I found I could actually sell moderately well. I could convince people of stuff. I learned a trick for doing this: to tell the truth. A lot of people think that the way to convince people of things is to be eloquent - to have some bag of tricks for sliding conclusions into their brains. But there's also a sort of hack that you can use if you are not a very good salesman, which is simply tell people the truth. Our strategy for selling our software to people was: make the best software and then tell them, truthfully, "this is the best software." And they could tell we were telling the truth. Another advantage of telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you've said. You don't have to keep any state in your head. It's a purely functional business strategy. (Hackers will get what I mean.) — Jessica Livingston

Being a sci-fi geek, it was just lovely to be on a show where I pretend I'm in outer space. That's always been my dream: to pretend to be out in space or actually be out in space. — Ming-Na Wen

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. — George Washington

Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Don't get angry towards God, when your lovers don't satisfy you — Natalia Silva

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did. — Peter Tork

Just let me be nice to you. — Jamie McGuire

Showing is better than telling. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Funny thing, talking to ghosts," he said. "You can't tell if you're making up their answers or if they are really talking to you. — John Green

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy. — Richard Paul Evans

He lifts an eyebrow. "Does the friend have a name?" "Mac." "Doesn't suit you. Do you have a different name? — Sarah Castille

I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it's not like I'm having to change a huge amount of the way I shoot to work in 3-D. I think you could probably dimensionalize some of my movies and they would make very good 3-D films. — Paul W. S. Anderson

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true. — Alfred Molina