Paul Scott Quotes

Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

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• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Balance

• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Courage

• People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• Dovea in memoria avere il signor mio,Che l'oro e 'l premio ogni durezza inchina;Ma, quando bisognò, l'ebbe in oblio,Ed ei si procacciò la sua ruina.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi

• I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.

  

  Colin Morgan

• I love someone with something to prove.

  

  Emily Weiss

• When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America's principal values.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.

  

  Daniel Pauly
  • Growth

• And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Travel

• Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

  

  Ann Macbeth
  • Up
  • World
  • Confidence

• I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.

  

  Logan Marshall-Green

• It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

  

  James Mattis
  • Experience
  • War
  • Nature

• Boulder should be next to the word 'community' in the dictionary.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Community

• Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Mind

• I'm not particularly prolific.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode

• The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were born with it. It's a craft like every other, you have to keep sharp and you have to be aware of your surroundings.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Work
  • Creativity
  • Born

• Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Night
  • Reality
  • End

• When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'

  

  James McAvoy
  • Why
  • Kids

• I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• If you stay very focused on customers and customer success, people pay attention to that - and in turn, they also want that same type of success.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • People
  • Success
  • Attention

• Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

  

  Paul Scott
  • People
  • Want
  • Period