George Packer Quotes

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Like
  • Denial
  • Repression

• My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Hope
  • Belief
  • Mission

• I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Want
  • Years
  • Saying

• Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Power

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Work
  • American
  • Movie

• When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • People
  • Country
  • Future

• You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Power
  • Game
  • Team

• The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Important
  • Together
  • Want

• I don't want to dog the NFL.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Want
  • Dog
  • NFL

• The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Work
  • Country
  • Process

• 'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Important
  • Mind
  • May

• No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long
  • Wonder

• I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • World
  • Good
  • She

• When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Lost

• 'Service, and the learning that goes with it, fosters citizenship, knowledge, and personal development in everyone, young and old, with disabilities and without. Our partnership with Youth Service America will bring awareness to the fact that youth with disabilities are great assets and can serve as volunteers too.'-U.S. Newswire

  

  Clay Aiken
  • Great
  • America
  • Knowledge

• As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents... I congratulate you on the great successes of your life's work.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Successes
  • Pioneer

• The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Today
  • Law
  • Taken

• We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • True
  • House
  • Crazy

• I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Art
  • Proud

• I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Years
  • Incredible
  • Mongolia

• It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

  

  George Packer