James Dyson Quotes
Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
-
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
-
I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
-
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
-
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
-
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
-
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
-
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
-
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
-
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
-
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
-
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
-
No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
-
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
-
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
-
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
-
As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
-
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
-
I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
-
I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'curvy' or 'plus-size' because there are women who identify as that, and I'm not offended by it whatsoever because I don't feel like being bigger is anything wrong.
-
You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
-
I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.
-
You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.
-
Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
