As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else.
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'
An Isaac Mizrahi fashion-show ticket signed by Steven Meisel. I rushed up to Meisel at the end of the show and asked him to autograph the card that had his name and seating assignment on it. It was an incredible moment when he shot the autumn/winter 2014 Moschino campaign.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.
The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.
Atletico Madrid and Barcelona are our rivals in domestic competitions, and they'll both fight to the end to win the League.
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.
One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
