Nate Berkus Quotes
If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
-
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
-
You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
-
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
-
The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
-
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
-
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
-
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
-
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
-
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
-
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
-
Have the courage to act instead of react.
-
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
-
Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
-
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
-
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
-
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
-
It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
-
Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
-
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
-
The human heart has a way of thinking that it is always in the right and has no need to weep over its sins. By nature, we are self-confident and impenitent. We blame others or even accuse God when we do not understand His ways.
-
If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
