James Dyson Quotes

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • True
  • Me
  • Mom

• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Courage
  • Act
  • React

• My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Fearless

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Doing

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Organization
  • Room

• When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Career
  • Film
  • Goal

• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Why

• I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

  

  Nas
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Hip Hop

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Live
  • Think
  • Greatest

• The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Worst
  • Test

• Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Rose
  • Bridge

• A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Up
  • Real

• I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Relation
  • My Mind
  • Attracted

• For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.

  

  Erik Rutan
  • Together
  • Challenges
  • Formidable

• We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

  

  John Olver
  • People
  • World
  • High

• The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

  

  James Dyson
  • Free