James Dyson Quotes
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
-
I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
-
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-
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.
-
You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
-
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
-
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
-
I like being unconventional.
-
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
-
There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
-
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
-
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
-
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
-
I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
-
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
-
Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
-
I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
-
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
-
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
-
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
-
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
-
We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.
-
The battle of the Falklands was a remarkable military operation, boldly planned, bravely executed, and brilliantly accomplished. We owe an enormous debt to the British forces and to the Merchant Marine. We honour them all. They have been supported by a people united in defence of our way of life and of our sovereign territory.
-
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
