Steve Jobs Quotes

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

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• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Facts
  • Learned
  • Opinions

• Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Politicians
  • Noise
  • General

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Record
  • Opinions
  • Anti-people

• On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Opinions

• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Music
  • Always
  • Noise

• Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Way
  • Opinions
  • Reward

• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Done
  • Question
  • Facts

• I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Kind
  • Everyone
  • Opinions

• I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Business
  • Body
  • Bigger

• Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Alone
  • Color
  • Noise

• Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Opinions
  • Asshole

• The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Peace
  • Water

• Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Power
  • Destiny

• We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Should
  • Window
  • Noise

• A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

  

  Facundo Cabral
  • Life
  • Noise
  • Bombs

• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Noise

• There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Country
  • Internet
  • Users

• I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Woman
  • Doubt
  • Celebrity

• Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

  

  Ambeth R. Ocampo
  • Ideas
  • Wrong
  • Shot

• Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Imagination
  • Soars
  • Stern

• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Security
  • Weapons

• Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Opinions
  • Noise
  • Inner Voice