Danny Meyer Quotes

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
  • Big
  • Activity

• One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Internet

• Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Courage

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Me
  • Passionate

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Mean

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Computers

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Small

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Care
  • Human

• There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Myself

• I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Comedy
  • Style
  • Bullying

• I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • Book
  • War
  • House

• I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Adversity

• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

  

  Jane Leeves
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Experience
  • Job