Geoff Mulgan Quotes

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

Geoff Mulgan

• Work
• Music
• Age
• Science
• Powerful

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Talent

• We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Action
  • Technology

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Fun
  • Dad
  • Like

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline
  • Vice

• The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Terrible
  • Been
  • Rebuilding

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• Home is where one starts from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Where
  • Starts

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them. As an actress, you get to go to these events and wear their things - it's fun, but it is what it is. I don't put a lot of time into it, but I respect what they do.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• When you are competing for attention and eyeballs, articulating value and evoking possibility and vision can be powerful tools.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Attention
  • Value
  • Powerful

• As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Great
  • Science
  • Forever

• Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Age