Pierre Omidyar Quotes

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

Pierre Omidyar

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• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • People
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • People
  • Government
  • Grow

• There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffering

• Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Future

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We are going to try to find you. We have teams of people canvassing neighborhoods and visiting churches and relief centers.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • People
  • Teams
  • Churches

• San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Fun
  • Politics

• I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.

  

  Jeff Mangum

• The viewer I picture in my mind when I do 'The Kelly File' is a woman who's had a long day, either with the kids or at work, or both.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Work
  • Long
  • Mind

• Digression is my passion. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives as a way of stringing together the interesting stories that people have kind of forgotten, and that are kind of surprising. The problem is, how do you pare stories away so that the book doesn't become a distracting jumble of material, and readers lose focus? In my experience, there's really only one way to do that. I pack it all in with the rough draft, then count on myself and my trusted readers to tell me what's good and what's not good.

  

  Erik Larson
  • People
  • Book
  • Together

• If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • People
  • Opportunity