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.
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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.
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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.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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'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.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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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.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
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Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.
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Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.
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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
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Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
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The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
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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.
