Marissa Mayer Quotes

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

Marissa Mayer

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• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Trust

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Better

• My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Car

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • Normal
  • Fears

• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • You
  • Decisions

• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Theater
  • Profession
  • Esteem

• So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Nice

• Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • People
  • Body
  • Torture

• Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Fire
  • Creativity
  • Intelligence

• There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Universe

• When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, 'There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.' That usually doesn’t go over at all.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • People
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• This solution has great superficial appeal-all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Great
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

  

  Andrew Buchan
  • Life

• So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Children
  • America

• Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best - one who is worthy of all our devotion - Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Life
  • Missing
  • Jesus Christ

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Death

• What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

  

  Marissa Mayer