Michael Moritz Quotes

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Michael Moritz

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• Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Africa
  • Begins

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Beauty

• It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Man
  • Thought

• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • School
  • Uncle
  • Medical

• They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Change

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Long
  • Home

• The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Business
  • Ethics
  • Journalism

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Now

• To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Nature

• The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

  

  Archibald MacLeish
  • Life
  • Moments

• Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real

• Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Fall

• I wouldn't mind having a nice little restaurant.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Mind
  • Nice

• Its very essence is trust upon Him and His sin-expiating and life-purchasing merits. Its very essence consists in its self-emptying, self-denying, Christ-grasping energy.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Trust

• Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

  

  Kim Thayil Soundgarden
  • Rush
  • Nirvana
  • Manufacturers

• I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

  

  Bruno Tonioli
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

  

  Michael Moritz
  • Thinking
  • Retirement
  • Notion