James E. Burke Quotes

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

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• What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Music
  • Future
  • Amazing

• I love cycling.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Cycling

• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • You
  • Cure

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Busy

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Good
  • God
  • Blessed

• TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Google
  • Beyond

• There's nothing wrong with being yourself.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Yourself
  • Being Yourself

• 'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Know
  • Bizarre

• I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rock

• I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Story

• There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • America
  • Together

• The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Truth

• It seems that you live in someone else's dream In a hand-me-down wedding dress With the things that could have been are repressed But you said your vows and you closed the door On so many men who would have loved you more

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Men
  • Live
  • Dream

• 'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Perspective
  • Plant

• And so one becomes, or I become, anyway, slightly obsessive, particularly about my health, because you wouldn't want to read the letters people write when you're off and they're disappointed - it's so awful, the guilt one feels for not being there.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • People
  • Health

• Mango has always been on my radar of good high street brands, but its quality sets it apart for me.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Good
  • High
  • Quality

• Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Why
  • Power
  • Risk

• I am totally anti-technology.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • Technology

• Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Year

• Well, the man don't just have to die, Foley. I mean, he could accidentally hurt himself falling down on something real hard, you know? Like a shiv, or my dick?

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Real
  • Die
  • Hurt

• The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Accepting

• We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

  

  James E. Burke