Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch) Quotes

I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.

Rupert Murdoch

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• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Christian

• It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Nice
  • Problem

• My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Not Good Enough

• I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Good
  • Money
  • Kids

• I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • College

• People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• The deepest thinking is humble. It is only concerned that the flame of truth which it keeps alive should burn with the strongest and purest heat; it does not trouble about the distance to which its brightness penetrates.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Distance

• Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Help

• Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

  

  Eric Butterworth
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Nice
  • Mistake

• What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Important

• As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

  

  Jason Giambi
  • Fear
  • Player
  • Failure

• I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Nice

• I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Future

• Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, and also was a very forceful personality, had a very good relationship with the president, and was in a very different place, for example, than Ben Bernanke, who is an academic, quiet guy: spent most of his time thinking about monetary policy.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Angry

• I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • Up
  • Dance

• God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• Central to achieving progress in Afghanistan - and to setting the conditions necessary to transition security tasks from the international community to the Afghan government - is increasing the size and capability of ANSF.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Community
  • Progress

• I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Thinking
  • Fear
  • Nice