Brian Chesky Quotes

I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

Brian Chesky

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• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Think
  • Everyone

• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Country
  • Future
  • More

• I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Artist
  • Journalist
  • Rather

• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

  

  Wayne White
  • Will
  • Hell
  • Deadline

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Why
  • Know
  • Running

• The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Athlete

• Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Human

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Giving

• Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Family
  • House
  • Baby

• I saw and loved.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• No, you don't wanna get me started. Jell-O with hair all in the mold. I'd be like, 'Damn, man, how are you gonna mess up Jell-O?' Jell-O is so wholesome and family-like. It just ruins it for me. To have a hair in there, yeah. I mean, I'm like, 'Come on, Bill Cosby pumps this, man!'

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Started
  • Ruin
  • Jello

• Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • American
  • Financial

• That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Important
  • Why

• I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

  

  Arabella Weir

• If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Said
  • Impossible
  • Order

• Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you completely understand and empathize with your customer and their life.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Life
  • Great

• I think I've got a funny face.

  

  Dominic West
  • Funny

• Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Effort

• I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

  

  Brian Chesky