Alan Finger Quotes

When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.

Alan Finger

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• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Very
  • Complicated

• No days off. I'm a workaholic.

  

  Wale
  • Days
  • Workaholic
  • Off

• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Women
  • High

• I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Different
  • Book
  • Poverty

• I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Work
  • Worry

• But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

  

  Lita Ford

• Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Career

• Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Service

• I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Dying

• One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

  

  Loni Love
  • Women
  • Color

• I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

  

  Alexis Korner

• When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.

  

  David Edwards
  • Money
  • America
  • Running

• Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

  

  Jerry Gillies

• Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.

  

  John Cho
  • Business
  • American

• I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Book
  • Guy

• There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Wish
  • Understanding

• The sum total of karma is God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Karma

• And that impulse to make the world better, to push back on those who try to make it worse, that’s something that your generation has to hold on to. And you have to remember, it’s never easy; there are no days off. But if there’s one thing that I know from my own life, it’s that with hard work and with hope, change is always within our reach.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.

  

  Alan Finger
  • Karma
  • Freely
  • Truly Are