Michael Eisner Quotes

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

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• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Politics
  • Side
  • Lot

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Never
  • Humanity

• We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • House
  • Bigs
  • Feet

• A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

  

  E. B. White
  • Power
  • Single

• Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.

  

  Petrarch
  • Book
  • Sense
  • Inspire

• Never give your sweetie all your heart, what heart will you have left in the end, and what would you do?

  

  Billy Howerdel Ashes Divide
  • Heart
  • Sweetie

• He didn't look too good so we chose to err on the side of caution.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Good
  • Caution
  • Chose

• It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Track

• From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fear
  • Grief
  • Craving

• Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Craving

• Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

  

  Kathleen Norris
  • Future
  • Change
  • Recapture

• If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people became increasingly 'moral', since lethal force is usually imminent. So far from moral fervour being an alternative to force, it is frequently the overture, the accompaniment and the memorial to it.

  

  Charles Hampden-Turner
  • Moral
  • Force
  • Instruments

• Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Information
  • Television
  • Knowing

• To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

  

  Michael Eisner
  • Mediocrity
  • Another
  • Encourage