Jaron Lanier Quotes

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

Jaron Lanier

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• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I love TV.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Love
  • I Love
  • TV

• In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • English
  • Nobody

• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Hands
  • Fate

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Respect
  • Rules

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Kids
  • Growth
  • Development

• I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I will offer a choice, not an echo.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Choice
  • Will
  • Offer

• The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Know
  • Church
  • Discipline

• People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Friends
  • Sports

• I'm a communicator.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Communicator

• I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Strong
  • Disability

• And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Control
  • Product

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • You
  • Lose

• When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Said
  • Stay Focused

• The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • People

• We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Compassion

• People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

  

  Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • People
  • Work
  • Acceptance

• We make every show different with a unique set list. Playing different songs at each show keeps us a little nervous and more attentive.

  

  Neil Patrick Fallon The Bakerton Group
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Show

• I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

  

  Jaron Lanier