Danny Hillis Quotes

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.

I think my father's skepticism fueled me to work harder.

A lot of people didn't believe in me.

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

I come alive the most when I am talking with people about following their dreams. Inspirational speaking is something I am very passionate about and will be doing more of.

I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.