James Goldsmith Quotes

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

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• I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Nice
  • Beginning
  • Start

• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Time
  • House
  • Giving

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Hope

• In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Short

• I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Book
  • Process
  • Short

• Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Job
  • Rich

• My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Wife
  • Books
  • Read

• The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Me
  • Uncomfortable

• I love Westerns!

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Westerns

• Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

  

  Major Taylor
  • World
  • Living
  • Greatest

• I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Time
  • School
  • Potential

• All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Same

• I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • motivation
  • Kicked

• The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Lost

• The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way…

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • May
  • Light

• It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Hate

• Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.'

  

  John Waters
  • People
  • College
  • Hair

• I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That’s how wiki came about.

  

  Howard G. Cunningham
  • Computer
  • Software
  • Improved

• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  

  James Goldsmith