Jose Angel Gurria Quotes
Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.
Quotes to Explore
-
Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
-
Life is a school of probability.
-
We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
-
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
-
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
-
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
-
I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
-
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
-
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
-
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
-
Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
-
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
-
I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
-
I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
-
I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.
-
I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.
-
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
-
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
-
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
-
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
-
I don't think we'll ever get too theatrical on stage. I can't see us using exotic props or fancy stages. Of course, we want to put on the best show possible, but we want the music to be the star of the show, not the stage set.
-
What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
-
I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
-
Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.
