#act

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#book #first #had #i #idea

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. ↗

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

#act #action #comes #depression #enthusiasm

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#draw #fact #jerks #reason #some

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#advice #ask #because #fell #get

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#capacity #create #endows #entrepreneurship #innovation

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#bring #giving #i #mary #me

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress. ↗

— Elle Fanning

#dakota #fanning #favorite

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone. ↗

— Patty Duke

#most #practical #seemingly #simplest #someone