Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Think
  • Me
  • Water

• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Middle
  • East
  • Obviously

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Want
  • Song

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Done
  • Future

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• The people in my songs are all me.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People

• I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

  

  Anne Taintor
  • Small
  • Perfect
  • Thanks

• I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Black
  • Water

• My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Husband

• I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'

  

  Keith Sweat

• I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college.

  

  Brendan Dooling
  • College

• He thought that everyone should listen to her voice, because there was so much sadness and happiness in it, all at the same time. And he knew she could make the world be quiet, and he thought that maybe the world needed to be quiet. That was the problem with the world—it never stayed quiet long enough to listen.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Problem
  • Happiness
  • Listen

• I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Kids
  • Focus

• It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Stars
  • Knowing
  • Astronomy

• If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Trying
  • School
  • Freedom

• I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Stupid
  • Sound
  • Entrepreneurial