Walter Isaacson Quotes
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.Walter Isaacson
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
Aaron Schock -
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Manju Warrier -
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
Adam Beach -
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
Walter Kirn -
Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
Daniel Baldwin
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
Patch Adams -
What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
Barry Jenkins -
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman -
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
Barbra Streisand
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We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
Yannis Stournaras -
George Bush doesn't care about black people.
Kanye West -
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay -
I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
Laura Dern -
I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
Pat Cadigan
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Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
Candice Swanepoel -
I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
Kajol -
I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
Victoria Pendleton -
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
Walter Isaacson