Walter Isaacson Quotes

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

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• I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Love
  • Power
  • Voice

• I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Technology

• The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Government

• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Kid
  • Just
  • Rotten

• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Business
  • You
  • Trust

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Now

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Myself
  • Open
  • Mail

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Cruel

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Honor
  • Dangerous
  • Himself

• I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Think
  • Want

• What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Party
  • Eye

• Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Reading
  • Choices

• I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe. The verb to be does make idiots of us all.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Universe

• There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Think
  • Down

• As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Important
  • Control
  • Calm

• I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Think
  • Creative