Steve Jobs Quotes

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Free
  • Myself

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• No one remembers who came in second.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Second
  • Came
  • Remembers

• Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Sometimes
  • Care
  • Laugh

• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Movie
  • Drama
  • Will

• 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Living
  • Where

• He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Man
  • Best

• It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Free
  • Government

• The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Good
  • Design
  • Living

• If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Age
  • Change
  • Environment

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Sympathy
  • Psalms

• Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Happy
  • Fool
  • Ignorance

• I am inspired by the lives of good and faithful women. From the beginning of time, the Lord has placed significant trust in them.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• A thrown-stone trajectory is a good metaphor for so many phenomena: the curve of an event, any event; the curve of a life, any life; the curve of a hypothesis; the curve experienced in the manufacture of a work of art; the curve of interest experienced in the manufacture of a catalogue.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

  

  Eric Idle
  • People
  • Fun
  • Silly

• Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Exercise

• I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Live
  • School
  • Friends

• We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Live
  • Information economy