James Goldsmith Quotes

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

James Goldsmith

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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

• 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

• 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

• I fear the future.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Future
  • Fear

• Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!'

  

  Kali Uchis

• I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

  

  Donald Kagan
  • Time
  • Different
  • True

• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Important
  • Greatest
  • Rip

• When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  

  James Goldsmith