John Carmack Quotes
To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
-
The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
-
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
-
I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
-
I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
-
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
-
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
-
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
-
Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
-
It's the irrational things that interest me.
-
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
-
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
-
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
-
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
-
I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. This meant that I had to come to understand Moses well enough to believe in my portrayal of him.
-
I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.
-
I can sing; I can hold a tune.
-
Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
-
In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy. The goal is to acquire technology that is on your product roadmap or people that fit culturally within your organization and help you execute on your roadmap faster.
-
To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.
