Steve Jobs Quotes

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Know
  • Say
  • Weakness

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Saying
  • Class

• Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Strategy
  • Filmmaking

• I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

  

  Wale
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Passion

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Life
  • Why
  • Problem

• Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Violence

• I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Good
  • Want
  • Seeing

• Is that a real country?

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Country
  • Real

• 'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Truth
  • True
  • Eyes

• We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Good

• We're a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones - apart from the iPhone - can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we'd only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn't do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into 'Facebook phones.' That's what Facebook Home is.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Work
  • Humble
  • Fearless

• This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Opportunity

• Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Beginning

• It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Crazy

• The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• A system is a set of things-people, cells, molecules, or whatever-interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time. ... The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior!

  

  Donella Meadows
  • People
  • Time

• Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Wonderful
  • Product