Scott McNealy Quotes

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Better
  • Worst
  • Hello

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Art
  • Acting

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over

• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Silence
  • Chaos
  • Meaning

• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Said

• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Conflict
  • The Right Thing

• Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Islam

• I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Never
  • Until
  • Watergate

• America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Support
  • Security

• But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Years
  • Worked
  • Consistently

• Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Actor

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Dad

• I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Quality
  • Voice

• A wave do ye displace, A shield do ye extend To the travelling woe, And violent exertion through grief. And inflaming through fury Between heaven and earth.

  

  Taliesin
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Grief

• I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • She

• If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

  

  Louise Leakey
  • Great
  • Today
  • Technology

• In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Technology

• If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

  

  Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Treat
  • Guest
  • Сruelly

• Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Technology
  • Banana