John Battelle Quotes

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

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• I never thought I'd be an actor.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Actor

• I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Challenge

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Good
  • God
  • Together

• I like most any place if I have Internet access.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Most

• The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Inspiration
  • Sun
  • Gym

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • World
  • Music
  • American

• I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Teen
  • Valley
  • Typical

• While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Disease

• My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Joy

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Fall

• NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Complex
  • Surveillance

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

  

  John Hughes
  • Business
  • Action

• Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fear
  • Worry
  • Form

• I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life
  • Live
  • Grandmother

• Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Die

• Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

  

  John Battelle