James Surowiecki Quotes

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

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• I like going after good material, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Good
  • Like
  • Going

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Done
  • Proud

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Fun

• If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Best
  • Woman
  • Smile

• You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • High
  • You

• China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

  

  Ma Jun
  • May
  • Alone
  • Environment

• The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Failure
  • Folly
  • Pigs

• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Bible
  • Slavery

• In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Eyes
  • Myself
  • Tired

• I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Never
  • Got
  • Jeans

• If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Start

• I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm able to do the 'Robotech' movie, and it's something I grew up watching. To actually be on 'Robotech' was really an experience.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Different
  • Why
  • Kids

• All space is space in which to create.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Space
  • Create

• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Risk

• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Connection
  • Circumstances
  • Function

• I was in New York and was pursuing musical theater, and it didn't feel right. I felt I was forcing myself to do things and be things that I wasn't, all the time. I wasn't listening to what I wanted to do. I was listening to what I thought I should do.

  

  Briga Heelan
  • Time
  • Listening

• I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

  

  Nicole Richie
  • Parents
  • Disappoint
  • Look Up

• Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

  

  James Surowiecki