Andrew Keen Quotes

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

Andrew Keen

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• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Lies
  • Taste
  • Mediocrity

• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Challenge
  • Stories
  • Characters

• But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Kind
  • Creating
  • WIld

• Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Rock
  • Lyrics

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Understanding
  • Creating

• There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Green
  • Creating

• Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Business
  • Air
  • Creating

• I like creating images.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Like
  • Creating
  • Images

• Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Down
  • Creating
  • Sustainable

• I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Up
  • Weakness
  • Creating

• Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Waiting

• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Joy

• I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.

  

  David Deida
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Action

• Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Mediocrity
  • Defending
  • Exhausting

• Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Good
  • Film
  • Wanted

• What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Winning

• Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Director

• This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Hate

• Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

  

  Andrew Keen
  • Creating
  • Mediocrity
  • Monkeys