Steven Sinofsky (Steven Jay Sinofsky) Quotes

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

Steven Sinofsky

• Share
• Structure
• Complex

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Long
  • Think
  • Guy

• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Like
  • Radio

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I'd never hurt another person.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Hurt
  • Person

• We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • World
  • Live
  • Fix

• It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Morning

• All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Truth
  • Lying
  • Order

• Men become old, but they never become good.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Men
  • Never

• I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Artist

• I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Beginning
  • Road
  • Knows

• You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Drunk
  • MAle
  • Indiscriminate

• ...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • She

• Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Good
  • Recognizing
  • Cleveland

• The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Nature
  • Debt
  • Immense

• When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Legacy
  • Creature
  • Remain

• When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

  

  Steven Sinofsky
  • Share
  • Structure
  • Complex