Steve Jobs Quotes

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

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• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Past

• When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Good
  • Art
  • Write

• The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Team
  • Day
  • Best

• Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Drunk

• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• 'Tout de même,' said Poirot, 'since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Find
  • Logic
  • Poirot

• We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

  

  Christian Scott
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Parents

• You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.

  

  Rita Ora

• I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Life
  • Attention

• Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.

  

  Mark Rutte

• I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moments

• Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.

  

  Pauline Neville-Jones
  • Work

• I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Why
  • Feeling

• What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Done
  • Job

• Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Career
  • Fear

• I was at Reed College for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Parents
  • Reed College

• [Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Social
  • Dirk Gently

• My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Done
  • She
  • Daughter

• There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • Past

• Guilty pleasure implies that it's something that I feel guilty for watching... people tell me I should feel guilty for watching because I'm too old to watch it, but I don't give a damn: I love everything on Cartoon Network from 'Adventure Time' to 'The Adventures of Gumball', 'Teen Titans'... all those shows that are for my kids, I like those!

  

  Ne-Yo
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Reed College
  • Calligraphy instruction