Steve Jobs Quotes

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Steve Jobs

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• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Good
  • Down
  • Carpenter

• Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned, defined, his skin warm and smooth. Stroking my palm up over the line of his collarbone, I felt the firmness of his shoulder, the strength of his bicep. I traced my fingers over the black AK, following the lines of the letters. Alex hardly moved as I touched him, his eyes never leaving me. Finally I sighed and dropped my hand. I tried to smile. "I've sort of been wanting to do that ever since that first night in the motel room," I admitted.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Master
  • Carpenter
  • Executioner

• With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Heart
  • Woods
  • Chest

• A carpenter is known by his chips.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Know
  • Chips
  • Carpenter

• I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Regret
  • Chest

• I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Together
  • Dad
  • Racing

• I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.

  

  Shaggy
  • Concerts
  • Dropping
  • Drawers

• I got one in the head, one in the chest, i remember him saying, 'Don't tell anybody,'.

  

  Aaron Hernandez
  • Head
  • Saying
  • Chest

• There’s this burnin’ in your chest, man. It’s like the colosseum, man.

  

  Charlie Flynn
  • Like
  • Burning
  • Chest

• You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Home
  • Chest

• Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Library
  • Treasure
  • Chest

• Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Actors
  • Painter
  • Singers

• Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

  

  Nick Bantock
  • Art
  • Dark
  • Judging

• The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  

  Debra Ginsberg
  • Human
  • Outside
  • Represented

• If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Push
  • Exploring
  • Chest

• My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.

  

  Christopher Bailey
  • House
  • Growing
  • Architecture

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Great
  • Successful

• Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Think
  • Foolish
  • Bombs

• I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.

  

  Amanda Marcotte
  • Women
  • History
  • Servitude

• When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Chest
  • Carpenter
  • Drawers