Trip Hawkins Quotes

You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'

Trip Hawkins

• Personality
• Learn
• Mistakes
• Resilient

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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Think
  • Know
  • Hero

• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • God
  • Trying

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writer
  • Use

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Kids
  • Together

• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Reading
  • Learning

• I always liked spy stories.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Always
  • Liked
  • Spy

• Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Me

• When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trust
  • Nobody

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I never starved myself.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Starved

• It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Something
  • Give
  • Pigeons

• I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Always
  • Daydreaming

• So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Work
  • Want
  • Style

• Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Love
  • Mother

• The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Learn

• Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Backstage

• Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Car
  • Philosophical

• I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • Mind
  • English
  • Basketball

• You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • Personality
  • Learn
  • Mistakes