Steve Jobs Quotes

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

Steve Jobs

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• Creating things

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• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • Given

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Good
  • She
  • Man

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Chance

• I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Chance
  • Season

• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Lost
  • Value
  • Chance

• If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Chance
  • Trump
  • Successful

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Direction

• Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Same

• In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Country
  • School
  • Best

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Done
  • Help

• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  

  Tacitus
  • Fall
  • Service
  • Chance

• Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Road
  • Chance
  • Baseball

• Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Money
  • Car
  • Chance

• Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Plaything

• If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Work
  • Chance
  • Opportunities

• I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Poetry
  • Story
  • Fiction

• I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Chance
  • Creating things