John Carmack Quotes

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Promise
  • Optimistic
  • Birth

• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Art
  • Myself

• I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Wonderful

• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Long
  • Family
  • Together

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Music
  • Home

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Different
  • Me
  • Kind

• We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Management

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • You
  • Sleep

• As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Strong
  • Professional

• There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Control

• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Regret

• When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

  

  John Carmack
  • Work
  • Opportunity