Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. ”

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. ”

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. ”

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ”

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job. ”

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing. ”

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand. ”

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. ”

Wealth flows from energy and ideas. ”

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. ”