John Naisbitt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
-
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
-
Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
-
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
-
Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
-
It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
-
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
-
I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
-
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
-
I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
-
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
-
I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.
-
There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it-it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it-you don't know what right is and you're not a man.
-
It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
-
I try to make fun of everyone as often as possible, especially minorities.
-
Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
-
We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.
-
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
-
I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.
-
All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
-
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
-
Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
-
We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate.
-
Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
