John Naisbitt Quotes

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

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• 'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Together

• No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Way
  • Concrete
  • Capability

• Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Wine
  • White

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Kill

• When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Help

• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Movies

• The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Food
  • Creative
  • Fresh

• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Doing
  • Motivational
  • Quit

• My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • You
  • Know

• I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • End

• The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you're doing it - like, 'Oh, my God.'

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Up
  • God
  • Strong

• One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

  

  William Golding
  • Science
  • Learning
  • Problem

• 'I have no wish to argue, Father. Yet it must be said that the monks exist here in peace and security only because of the swords of the defenders. I do not belittle your views — I wish all men shared them. But they do not. ... if all men and women lived as you and I, there would be no children, and no humanity. What then would be the Will of the Source?'

  

  David Gemmell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eye

• The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

  

  John Naisbitt