Jonathan Ive Quotes
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Quotes to Explore
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.
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New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."
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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
