George Packer Quotes

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

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• You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Player
  • End
  • Doing

• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Go

• To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Real
  • Agent
  • Real estate

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Years
  • Working
  • London

• I never read the tabloids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Never
  • Read
  • Tabloids

• I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Guess
  • Tomboy
  • Resourceful

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Challenge

• I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Know
  • Find
  • Street

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Question
  • Learn

• You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Vision

• Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Idiot
  • Johnson
  • Lee

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different
  • Focus
  • Deep

• I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

  

  Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

  

  George Packer