James Surowiecki Quotes

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Film

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Dad

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Walking
  • Irish

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Enjoy

• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Remember
  • Short
  • Trees

• I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

  

  David Cameron
  • Bad
  • Political
  • Rest

• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

  

  John Thorn
  • Game
  • Forever
  • Baseball

• When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Value

• I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Understanding
  • Gift
  • Offer

• Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Long
  • Job