Om Malik Quotes

Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

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• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Long
  • Wine
  • Trail

• I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Family
  • Know
  • Violence

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Country
  • Always
  • Doing

• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Teach

• I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Understand

• You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Relax
  • Colors
  • Gardening

• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Passion
  • English
  • Literature

• The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Government
  • Matter

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Find

• I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Health
  • Point
  • Workaholic

• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Help
  • Heaven

• Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Know
  • Wind
  • Sailing

• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • May
  • Running

• Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life

• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Boxing

• By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and we learn to honor our unique expression of Masculine and Feminine gifts. We fully incarnate in our bodies, at home and at ease in a man's body or a woman's body. And we learn to love with complete abandon, as free men and women, without rules or roles or guarded hearts.

  

  David Deida
  • Men
  • Women
  • Heart

• Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Learning
  • Stress

• Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

  

  Om Malik
  • Stress