Steve Jobs Quotes

If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.

Steve Jobs

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Family
  • Money
  • Bad

• A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Family
  • Death
  • Couple

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Voice
  • Victim
  • Oriented

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Slow

• I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Strong
  • Spirit
  • Rebellious

• Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Night
  • Paris
  • Now

• I'm the only gay person my parents know.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Gay

• I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Today
  • Stop
  • Crying

• High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Opportunities
  • Achievers
  • Swiftly

• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Man
  • End

• When I was a child, I wanted to be important.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Important
  • Child
  • Wanted

• My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Careers
  • Comeback
  • Legendary

• If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Education
  • Customers
  • Employers