Steve Jobs Quotes
There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
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Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
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I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
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I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.
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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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It wouldn't be possible because there aren't enough airports for all the men who'd want to flee the country.
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I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.
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The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.
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To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.
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I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.
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If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.
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There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
