Beth Simone Noveck Quotes

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Beth Simone Noveck

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Character
  • Movies

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Player
  • Basketball

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Never
  • Sorry
  • Satisfied

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Love
  • Big
  • Crowd

• In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Amount
  • Massive
  • Genetics

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Dog

• The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Men
  • Organization

• Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • World
  • Action

• The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Why

• Don’t confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Confuse

• The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

  

  Beth Simone Noveck
  • Work
  • Together
  • Distance