Jerry Della Femina Quotes
You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
-
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
-
I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
-
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
-
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
-
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
-
Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
-
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
-
Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
-
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
-
Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
-
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
-
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
-
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
-
I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
-
Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
-
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
-
Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
-
I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.
-
About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
-
I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.
-
There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.
-
You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
