If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Courage is grace under pressure.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That’s why there’s the old saw: location, location, location.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Joining McLaren didn’t add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Trust, but verify.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.