Jesse James Garrett Quotes

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Jesse James Garrett

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Father

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Singing

• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • New York

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • Dying
  • Living

• We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Best
  • Easy
  • Forgive

• In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Say
  • Looking
  • Skin

• I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Kids
  • Team
  • Husband

• I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Moment

• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

• Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Work
  • Real
  • Respect

• When I hear about these terrorist ideologies, they are completely foreign and strange to me. I mean, to me, it's, like, antithetical.

  

  Keith Ellison

• I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Agenda

• I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Life
  • Moral

• As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

  

  Jesse James Garrett
  • World
  • May