Jonathan Ive Quotes
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Do all things with love.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I just write mechanical things.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
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I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.
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Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.
