Jim Loehr Quotes

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Jim Loehr

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• Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • March

• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
  • Best

• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • City

• I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Act

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Bed
  • Beat
  • Her

• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Experience
  • History
  • Democracy

• I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Up
  • Television
  • Old

• Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Thought
  • Better

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Night
  • You

• My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Guy
  • Friend
  • Smart

• You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • World
  • Child
  • Prepare

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Failure
  • Greatness

• The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Up
  • She
  • Beautiful

• They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

  

  Howard K. Smith
  • World
  • War
  • Wish

• When you make giant things for people, they don't always fit; they're not always happy with something that's that big or that kind of outrageous compared to what they usually wear.

  

  Chris March
  • People
  • Happy

• I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in Sydney. It's easier to be proud of what you're wearing if you've met the people behind the brand and there's more of a personal story.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • People
  • Proud
  • Independent

• When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• There's no such thing as multitasking.

  

  Jim Loehr