John Gould Quotes

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Power
  • Love Is

• If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • End
  • Sea

• Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Together
  • Alone
  • Day

• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  

  O. Henry
  • May
  • Environmental
  • Weather

• We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Sex
  • Fight
  • Equality

• Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Art
  • Together

• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  

  Om Puri
  • Films
  • Lot
  • Copies

• War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • Country
  • War
  • Crime

• The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Wine

• We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • May

• In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Family
  • Party

• Now watch me go retarded, yellow short bus.

  

  Lil Wayne

• Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Dark

• With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Night

• It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Dream
  • Weird

• I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

  

  Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • Life
  • Lost
  • City

• Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Vision

• The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

  

  James Surowiecki

• Traditional methods for falling asleep work. Non-taxing, repetitive mental tasks have a lulling effect, and I built those patterns into 'Sleep'.

  

  Max Richter
  • Work
  • Sleep

• You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.

  

  Gene Robinson
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'

  

  Christy Haubegger
  • To Be
  • Ask
  • Minority

• If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

  

  John Gould