David Neeleman Quotes

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

David Neeleman

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• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Love
  • Evil

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  

  Washington Irving
  • True
  • Enthusiasm
  • Eloquence

• I grew up in New York.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Story
  • Own
  • Ending

• I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Home
  • Three

• I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Night
  • Know
  • Sunglasses

• When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Person
  • Start

• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Peace
  • Body
  • Emotions

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Cellphone

• The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Fire

• It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Parents
  • Immigration

• Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• I was not always a man of woe.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Man
  • Always
  • Woe

• A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Live
  • Why
  • Reality

• People see what they want to see.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People

• The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Activities
  • Shamans
  • Sorcerer

• If you want me to be straight, gay, into monkeys, dating Kylie, whatever, I'm happy for people to project whatever onto me!

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • People
  • Happy
  • Gay

• For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

  

  Paul Parker
  • Want
  • Control
  • Goal

• I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

  

  David Neeleman