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

• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  

  Michael Frayn
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Best

• Unde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarium quaesiuit: `si quidem deus', inquit, `est, unde mala? Bona uero unde, si non est?

  

  Boethius

• Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

  

  Colin Camerer
  • Family
  • Tree
  • Cousin

• O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

  

  William Cowper
  • Solitude
  • Horrible
  • Charm

• I know many Europeans and I think many of them don't even believe me when I say that people in US don't have vacations. Obviously a lot of people do but there are many, tens of millions of people that don't and there's certainly no guarantee of a vacation. So paid time off is very valuable where people know they could get four or five weeks vacation, which is absolutely standard in Europe. Denmark has 6 weeks. So I think that's something that's very valuable, giving people time off.

  

  Dean Baker
  • Guarantee
  • Obviously
  • Europeans

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

  

  John Naisbitt