James Altucher Quotes

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

James Altucher

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• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Different
  • Circumstances

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Growth
  • Unique
  • Promise

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Theory
  • Worth

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Stage
  • Build

• On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.

  

  Jack Keane
  • High
  • Problem
  • Professional

• We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • World
  • Important
  • Business

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Cricket

• I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Bad
  • Community

• People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Deep
  • Humor

• A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Eternity

• My life is really stressful and before finding the vlogbrothers, nerdfighteria, you guys, I wasn't you know dead, but I really do feel like I have so much more in my life.

  

  Esther Earl
  • My Life
  • Dead
  • Feel Like

• When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Time
  • Night
  • Growing

• The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • School
  • Technology
  • Kind

• Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

  

  James Altucher
  • Growing
  • Technology
  • Productivity