Dee Hock Quotes

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

Dee Hock

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
  • New York
  • Week

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

  

  Iman
  • Faith
  • Daughter
  • Flower

• The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Christian
  • Religion

• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Universe

• It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Long
  • Marriage

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
  • Strong

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Death
  • Reputation

• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Point
  • Breaking
  • No Point

• My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Person
  • Normal
  • Superpowers

• I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

• Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • Work
  • Power
  • Technology

• Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Different
  • Artist

• My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World

• New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Spiritual

• I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

  

  Morris Graves
  • Friends
  • I Love
  • Painful

• Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

  

  Dee Hock
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money