Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.
At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the things you are trying to do are not only dissimilar but actively impede each other.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.
A film can reach only the places which the distributor has promised you. Several films are not released internationally, and Web has that wide reach.
A film is between you and the audience. The distributors are the only people in between us. It is a straight equation.
I want to be a commercially viable actor. I want that the distributors and producers should earn the money; then only, you become a bankable actor.
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
There will always be divergence of views on the output gap, as it is unobservable in a rigorous direct sense. There are only estimates. How can there be a strong consensus on that?
The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.
