Steve Jobs Quotes

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

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• I call myself a constitutional conservative.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Myself
  • Conservative
  • Call

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Reading
  • Author
  • Chicago

• I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Time
  • Country
  • Political

• Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Passion
  • Wise
  • Christ

• People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn't have another.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • People
  • Father
  • Daughter

• If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Courage

• For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Long
  • Exercise
  • Loss

• It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Work
  • Art
  • Practice

• The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Sky

• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • World
  • Black
  • Energy

• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Wall

• Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People

• I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Hate

• I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and was a big Bills fan.

  

  Lex Luger
  • Up

• You have to face fears head on.

  

  Kriti Sanon

• I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

  

  Chris Noth
  • Attention

• Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

  

  Dale Jamieson
  • Sometimes
  • Revolutions
  • Retrospectively

• People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Trying
  • Focus

• Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  

  Artur Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Focus
  • Simplicity
  • Mountains