Mark V. Hurd Quotes

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

Mark V. Hurd

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• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Time
  • Present

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Melancholy

• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • True
  • Want
  • Man

• As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Rest
  • First

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Always
  • Fishing
  • Horizon

• I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • People
  • Love
  • Today

• I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Same
  • Speed

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Successful
  • Face
  • Adversity

• Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Failure
  • Revolution

• I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • True
  • Crime

• I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Myself
  • Better

• Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Win
  • Selfish
  • Group

• And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Art
  • Perception

• Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Powerful

• He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all - '

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sky

• In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Risk

• I really believed that fear is contagious.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Fear

• I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

  

  James Joyce
  • Book
  • Earth
  • City

• You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Song
  • Life is
  • Eternity

• I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.

  

  Jehane Noujaim
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

  

  Mark V. Hurd