Steve Jobs Quotes

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

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• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• I have dangerous bones in my body.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Body
  • Dangerous
  • Bones

• Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Things
  • Possible
  • Slow

• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Political
  • Single
  • Lies

• I'm very passionate.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Very
  • Passionate

• The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Art
  • Play
  • Interpretation

• When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Age

• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Quality
  • Generosity
  • Defensive

• I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Like

• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

  

  Warren Farrell

• At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Hand
  • Celebrity

• Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

  

  James Madison

• If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Training

• My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

  

  Chris Hayes
  • Dream

• Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Literature

• When I first started producing, all I had was this little crappy sampler called a S20, which had, like, a minute sample time. I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job. I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.

  

  Diplo
  • Time
  • Job

• Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

  

  John Milton
  • Truth

• One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Guy
  • Days
  • Travels

• Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

  

  James Meredith

• When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Mind
  • May
  • Character

• Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • What to do
  • What not to do