Jessica Livingston Quotes

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Jessica Livingston

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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Look

• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Car
  • Dog

• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

  

  Gary Frank
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Help
  • Stop

• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Attention
  • Some

• When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Opportunity

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Party
  • Celebrate

• 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

• It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunities

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation
  • Economic

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Happy
  • Curious
  • Earnest

• I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

  

  Bjork

• When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Being
  • Principle

• People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Innovation