Betsy Landin Quotes

Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

Betsy Landin

• Love
• Dreams
• Weakness
• Flaws
• Choosing

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Story
  • Hero
  • Look

• President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Right
  • Security
  • Decisions

• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Essential

• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Love
  • Hurt

• I've never been on a date.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Never
  • Been
  • Date

• I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Live
  • Purpose

• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Religion
  • Commit
  • Muslims

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Hope
  • Ideas
  • Creativity

• I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Football
  • Christianity
  • Republican

• Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• 'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Long
  • Democracy
  • Ridiculous

• I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Perfect
  • Film
  • Moment

• Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

  

  Betsy Landin
  • Love
  • Dreams
  • Weakness