Robert Cowley quotes

Robert Cowley quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What if miliseconds influence centuries?”
-- Robert Cowley

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“Milliseconds influence centuries.”
-- Robert Cowley

#Influence Quotes #Century Quotes
“There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.”
-- Robert Cowley

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“If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?”
“What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.”
“I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, â€˜How do we make people pay for music?â€™ What if we started asking, â€˜How do we LET people pay for music?â€™”

Source : "How Do You Get People To Pay For Music?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.
“What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?”
“Bowie's been a huge influence on me.”
“Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.”

Source : "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are" by Amy Cuddy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2013.
“It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.”
“The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”
“At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.”
“To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.”

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