Quotes about zero
zero ideas diversity
It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder. Michelle Malkin
zero jobs research-and-development
Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce. Michael Porter
zero garden thinking
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. Michael Pollan
zero rap emotion
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. Sebastian Bach
zero mean ideas
That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread. Seth Godin
zero marketing followers
Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
zero responsibility climbing
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm. Ray Anderson
zero order levels
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition. Slavoj Zizek
zero mean skills
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body. Sloane Crosley
zero faces emptiness
When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face. Rajneesh
zero cancer four
The federal investment in finding cures for cancer - $3 billion annually [as of 1999] - is less than ... zero ... point ... zero ... zero ... zero ... four ... percent of our gross domestic product, or about one-seventh of what Americans spend on beauty products. Michael Milken
zero block mcdonalds
How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers. Michael Moore
zero knows uncle-tom
I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing. Norm MacDonald
zero people age
I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!
zero powerful war
You’ve got to be kidding me. I thought you were the most powerful of beings. Even the gods fear you. (Stryker) We all have predators. The entire universe exists in a system of checks and balances. I just met my zero balance. (War) Are you honestly telling me that the most powerful creature on this planet is a pathetic Cajun guttersnipe who offed himself because one of my men killed his mommy? (Stryker) Sherrilyn Kenyon
zero interesting wealth
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Nicolas Berggruen
zero real thinking
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.
zero giving-up do-not-give-up
We all start with zero. We all start at the beginning. Do not give up. Nick Vujicic
zero boys guy
Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy.Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend the rest of their time trying to figure out how to change him. Then if they manage it, they're not all that interested anymore, because guess what? He's not the one anymore. Nora Roberts
zero future moon
No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space. Nikola Tesla
zero patient figures
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero. Monica Lewinsky
zero firsts patient
I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.
zero wall incentives
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero. Matt Taibbi
zero blood sweat
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero. Max Brooks
zero gold gone
Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds? Mark Skousen
zero enabling plus
What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five? Martin Seligman
zero devil rooms
What happens when it's 2 a.m. and you're alone in a hotel room with the devil's minibar? Minibar - one; Marissa - zero. Marissa Jaret Winokur
zero giving-up hard-work
There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case. Maynard Webb
zero long way
It feels a long way up and down from zero. May Sarton
zero lying heart
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it. Matt Ridley
zero age canada
Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero. Michael Cera
zero heart space
There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there. Mary Karr
zero hate dark
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.