John Naisbitt Quotes

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

John Naisbitt

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• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Winning
  • Thought

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Learn

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • True
  • 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.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Always
  • Characters
  • Lived

• One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Ignorance
  • Chief
  • Asset

• I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Short
  • Him
  • Upset

• I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Deeply

• 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.

  

  Ayn Rand

• It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads

• I try to make fun of everyone as often as possible, especially minorities.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Fun

• Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Work
  • Autism

• We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Sun
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Style
  • Consistency

• You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious.

  

  Bun B
  • Book
  • Rap
  • Five

• I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

  

  Jeremy Scott

• One of the major things in any dance-based reality show is how smartly you can impress the audience and keep your cool throughout the show.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Reality
  • Cool
  • Dance

• Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Nice
  • Eating
  • Obsession

• The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

  

  Emil Fackenheim
  • Crime
  • Mankind
  • Punishment

• Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

  

  John Naisbitt