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

• I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• 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

• I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

  

  Miguel
  • Power
  • Simple

• Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural – a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Desire

• 'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

  

  R. T. Kendall
  • God
  • Desire

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

  

  Steve Jobs
  • What to do
  • What not to do