Bill Moggridge Quotes
If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I am not honest.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Bullies always have another target.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
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One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
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Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.
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In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.
