Brian Eno Quotes
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
Quotes to Explore
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
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A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
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Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.
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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
