Jeff Weiner Quotes

You don't necessarily have to go public to get to the next level.

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• It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Success
  • Pride

• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • You
  • Violence
  • Better

• Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Know

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Up
  • True
  • Faith

• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

  

  Halsey
  • Person
  • Popular
  • Year

• Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • Men
  • War

• 19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Age
  • Coward

• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • May

• Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Time
  • World
  • Words

• Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.

  

  Laurence J. Peter

• We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • America
  • Band

• In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • School

• I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Coffee
  • Cousin

• Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Friends
  • High
  • Worry

• I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Chicago
  • Driver
  • Loop

• Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Financial

• Trump has never sacrificed anything for this country, and in fact, he has attacked people who have. It just makes me sick to my stomach when I see him attacking the mother of a fallen hero or John McCain. It just makes me sick to my stomach that this guy thinks he's prepared to be commander-in-chief.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Mother
  • Trump
  • Hero

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Queen
  • Heads
  • Latifah

• You don't necessarily have to go public to get to the next level.

  

  Jeff Weiner