Steve Jobs Quotes

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

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• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Deep

• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

  

  Felicia Day
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Scared
  • Horror
  • Watch

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Simple

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Weird
  • Strange
  • Really

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy
  • Idea
  • Slave

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Time
  • Years
  • Now

• Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Start

• The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Sexy
  • Reminded
  • First Concert

• The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Knowledge
  • Happiness
  • Bible

• Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland' from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.' 62 Chap. lxxii.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • History

• Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. Yet only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • God
  • Satanic

• Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
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