Steve Jobs Quotes

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

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• Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Political
  • Authority
  • Rights

• I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Nature
  • You
  • Butterfly

• Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Attitude

• My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Fighting
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

  

  T.I.
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Romance
  • Income
  • Fascinating

• The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

  

  W. A. H. Rushton
  • Goal
  • Personality
  • Impress

• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

• You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

  

  Zana Briski
  • Suffering
  • Photography
  • Cameras

• I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my face, jumping around and asking if I needed help. It had no understanding of my emotions and had zero empathy. That got me interested in this idea of tech being responsive to our emotions.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Help

• A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Education
  • Training
  • Definitions

• Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • She
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Use
  • Research
  • Computer

• There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • High
  • Skin
  • Treatment

• The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Computer
  • Macintosh