James Dyson Quotes

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

James Dyson

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• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Never
  • Big
  • Winner

• The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • World
  • Run
  • Strategy

• Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Singing
  • Tree

• If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • You
  • Independent

• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Courage

• I try to let my game speak for itself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Speak
  • Try

• I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Science
  • Powerful

• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fish

• Within a mere five months however, the mindless violence of 2002 had dealt us another unexpected blow. Innocents were killed. Families rendered helpless. Property built through years of toil destroyed. Still struggling to get back on its feet from the natural devastation, this was a crippling blow to an already shattered and hurting Gujarat.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Violence
  • Blow

• Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Business
  • Job

• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Progress

• Nothing is that which fills no space. If one single point placed in a circle may be the starting point of an infinite number of lines, and the termination of an infinite number of lines, there must be an infinite number of points separable from this point, and these when reunited become one again; whence it follows that the part may be equal to the whole.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Single
  • Space

• You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Trying
  • Song

• Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Struggle

• A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Money

• I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Style

• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Grief
  • Greater
  • Opposite

• Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Just
  • Out
  • Troublemakers

• Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

  

  James Dyson