Adam Lashinsky Quotes

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

Adam Lashinsky

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• There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Security
  • Will
  • Cooperation

• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Progress

• When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Know
  • Mean

• If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Know

• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Ready

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Knowledge
  • Dangerous

• Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?

  

  Louis Mario Freese
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Together

• Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • People
  • Life
  • Powerful

• It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Romantic

• My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Parents
  • Blender
  • Transistor

• Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Life
  • Perspective

• It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • People
  • Evil
  • Innocent

• We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Faces
  • Lifetime
  • Dozen

• Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hours
  • Fairness
  • Fairs

• I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Writing
  • Chance
  • Aspire

• Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Important
  • Experience
  • America

• Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Facts
  • Fiction
  • Lion

• If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Effort
  • Duty
  • Cloud

• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Running

• The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

  

  Adam Lashinsky
  • Metaphor
  • Cloud
  • Industries