Ivy Lee (Ivy Ledbetter Lee) Quotes

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

Ivy Lee

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Opportunity
  • Wanted
  • Heat

• I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Actor
  • First
  • Trained

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Want

• Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Angry

• I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Engineers

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Speed
  • Fast
  • Competitors

• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
  • Doing

• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Voice
  • Lucky
  • Rhythm

• In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Grow

• When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • World
  • Progress
  • Prison

• I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Missing

• The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Corruption
  • Outside
  • Africa

• I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Like
  • Doing
  • I Can

• We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Future
  • Growth

• While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

  

  David Antin

• Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

  

  Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • Behaviour
  • Attitudes
  • Therefore

• I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Black
  • Nice
  • Simple

• In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

  

  Ivy Lee
  • Care
  • Discipline
  • Safety