John Gruber Quotes
As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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I feel very lucky.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
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I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.
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All the guys on 'Breaking Bad' are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.
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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
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I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - they don't quite know where to begin, where to end, and they'll waste a lot of time making this perfect shot, an establishing shot, and then there's no time left to shoot the dialogue.
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A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.
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It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
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As Christians in America, we’re often lulled into the false belief that somehow we have a monopoly on the pure and undiluted version of the message of Jesus. Unfortunately, we don’t. Christianity by nature has a tendency to blend in and become obscured by the cultural influences that surround it—such has been the case for nearly 2,000 years of Christian history.
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As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.
