Avinash Dixit Quotes

You might think that having more options is always a good thing. But thinking strategically, you can often do better by cutting off options.

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Style

• The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Violence
  • Ego

• The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Girlfriend

• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • High
  • Environment

• If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Career
  • Single

• I'm so glad that the peg-leg jeans thing is over. I'm over that, and I don't know why people think that the boyfriend jean looks good on everyone. Maybe if you're really tall and thin you can pull it off, or pull it off better than most. But being only five-foot-one and being more of a curvy girl, boyfriend jeans aren't the most flattering.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Thankful

• In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd

• All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Words

• I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Professional

• Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Missing

• The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Laws
  • Truths

• Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Way
  • Speak
  • Humans

• I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Changing

• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Trying
  • Champagne

• You might think that having more options is always a good thing. But thinking strategically, you can often do better by cutting off options.

  

  Avinash Dixit
  • Thinking
  • Cutting
  • Options