Max Levchin Quotes

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Want
  • Audience

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Truth
  • Always

• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Keep

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Trump
  • Ask

• I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Power
  • Change

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Together
  • Add

• If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People
  • Man
  • Past

• Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Music

• I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Respect

• I have joined my people in the new spirit that moves them today, the spirit that revolts openly and boldly against injustice and expresses itself in a determined and non-violent manner.

  

  Albert Lutuli
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Joined

• More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Reason
  • Dark

• You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.

  

  Phil Lord
  • Great

• If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

  

  Max Levchin
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