Niels Diffrient Quotes

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

Niels Diffrient

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • God
  • Right

• Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

  

  Sally Mann
  • You
  • Stand
  • Digital

• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Being
  • Confuse
  • Blunt

• I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Young

• This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Learning
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Book
  • Anxiety
  • Helped

• I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Fan
  • Cooper

• It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

  

  Lactantius
  • May
  • Heaven
  • Mountain

• I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • Man
  • Ice

• I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Know
  • Crazy
  • Person

• I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Bad
  • High
  • Heels

• I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Good
  • Writing
  • She

• Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happy
  • Successful
  • Habit

• I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Worry

• Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Die
  • Living
  • Knowing

• 'Bake Off' is one of my favourite programmes, so I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Very
  • Favourite
  • Shocked

• I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Family
  • Hard
  • Whole

• But science is not a democracy. Science is a brutal arena where ideas are picked apart, attacked, and tested to see if they hold up. Those that do hold up live to fight another day. Those that don’t are dragged off and discarded. To survive, a theory must be supported by vibrant, meaningful, replicable research.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

  

  Michael Caine
  • Want
  • Coffee
  • Dinner

• Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

  

  Niels Diffrient
  • Dinner
  • Telephone
  • Precedence