John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Together
  • Song

• The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Small

• One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Value

• In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Hurt

• I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Good
  • Me
  • Drink

• Just try to add more things to my game each year.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • Try
  • Year

• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Day
  • Gym
  • Worried

• Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • May
  • Party
  • Far

• What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Love
  • Like
  • Ideas

• I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Success
  • Years

• I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Asking

• I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon.That short-haired joy and roughness-America-your stupidity.I could almost love you again.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • America
  • Joy

• Some people say accident, it may be an accident, it may be something else. The (helicopter) was very well equipped, this was my (helicopter) the one I am flying all the time, I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked... either there was some side wind or the instruments failed or there was an external factor.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Sick
  • Lazy

• I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

  

  Mason Cooley

• It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

  

  Allan Massie
  • Life
  • Book
  • Mother

• I don't come from a film background, so I am free to work in any script that interests me.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Free
  • Script
  • Film background

• It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Library

• The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.

  

  Elizabeth Coleman
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Democracy

• I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.