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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Gardening
  • Divides

• i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Work
  • Different
  • Nature

• Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Experience
  • Evil
  • Torture

• Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Success
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Never
  • Imagined
  • Blaire

• There's nothing that helps clear my mind and improve my mood more than sweating in a room with my friends to some amazing new music and feeling stronger and taller every time I walk out. It's truly incredible. I'm addicted. And the results aren't half bad, either.

  

  Anna Kaiser
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Mood

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

  

  Michael Eisner
  • Mediocrity
  • Another
  • Punish