George Lois Quotes

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Love
  • Hate
  • See

• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Team
  • I Can

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Gun

• I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely'.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Why
  • Way

• If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

  

  George Lois
  • People
  • Work