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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast. -- Tony Hsieh
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else. -- David Talbot
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. -- Ray Kurzweil
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -- Denis Waitley
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart. -- Raoul Dufy
For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast. -- Tony Hsieh
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. -- John Yoo
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. -- Bill Nye
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it. -- Charlie Pierce
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature. -- Peter Hain
Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving. -- Richard Branson
Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do. -- George Meyer
Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms. -- Mark Hamill
Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference. -- Paul Collier
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -- Denis Waitley
The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different. -- Jessica Simpson
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection. -- Anna Kendrick
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. -- George Carlin
If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business. -- Natalie Massenet
When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense. -- Shaun White
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad -- Denis Waitley
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence. -- Mark Millar
President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on. -- Jimmy Fallon
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. -- Katherine Dunn
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored. -- Herman Melville
I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998. -- Alan G. Poindexter
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that. -- Natasha Hamilton
I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January. -- Genevieve Gorder
We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy. -- Winona LaDuke
One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching. -- Kevin Rose
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. -- Timothy Ferriss
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. -- Timothy Ferriss
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength. -- Hassan Nasrallah
This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. -- Carl Rogers
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. -- Gary Numan
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters. -- Russell Smith
I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage. -- Fergie
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports. -- Dietrich Mateschitz
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. -- Anant Agarwal
I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding. -- Jason Silva
Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster. -- Kathryn Minshew
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room. -- Naveen Jain
If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency. -- Brene Brown
I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort. -- Eric Ries
How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown. -- Athol Fugard
Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises. -- George Gilder
Worship is the launching pad for life. -- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings. -- Joyce Meyer
Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad. -- Denis Waitley
The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search. -- Charlene Li
Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division. -- Maria Rodale
There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it. -- Peter Erskine
I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions. -- Chris Lytle
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining. -- Zach Condon
Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling. -- Gil Penchina
We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it. -- Bill Hicks
When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it. -- Alex Blumberg
I applaud President Obama for launching his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success. -- Charles B. Rangel
Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project. -- Rosemary Verey
Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions. -- Sam Branson
Whether you are launching a start-up or leading an established company, you should start establishing your social media presence if you haven't already. -- Richard Branson
I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war... -- Curtis LeMay
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no. -- Robert Baer
ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer. -- Jay Leno
There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality. -- Kevin Hart
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria. -- William J. Clinton
Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not. -- John Novak
At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life. -- David H. Murdock
I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I've learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor. -- Jim Palmer
Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission. -- Ben F. Meyer
The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any. -- Heidi Julavits
How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window? It would make the whole takeoff look more impressive. -- Jack Handey
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the outstanding blunders in history. -- Winston Churchill
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Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality. -- Allen Weinstein
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors. -- Barton Gellman
The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product. -- Clayton Christensen
The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions. -- Antoni Tapies
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else. -- Burt Rutan
I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when Suha Arafat was launching anti-Semitic tirades against Israel and the Jews. -- Bret Stephens
The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy. -- Yanis Varoufakis
In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true. -- Van Jones
We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. -- John R. Allen
We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. -- John R. Allen
I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution. -- Fidel Castro
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service. -- Harold E. Varmus
I've been working with Five Four. The partnership started as one monthly collaboration, but now I'm the creative design director. There are still going to be collaborations for monthly drops, but we are launching e-commerce. -- Mark McNairy
Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages. -- Todd Park

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