Bob Burg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
-
I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
-
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
-
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
-
I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
-
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
-
Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
-
What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
-
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
-
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
-
I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
-
I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
-
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
-
When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
-
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
-
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
-
I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
-
The papers that flourish will be papers that serve a national audience. Papers that have figured out how to make the transition to the electronic platform that aren't simply providing a duplicate experience of the words on paper experience, but are doing something that arises organically from the new electronic medium. It's really just a matter of finding the right platforms for the way people want to read newspapers. I mean, maybe it will be the iPhone. But one way or another, newspapers on paper are just not really going to exist to any significant degree within a decade.
-
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
-
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
-
The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
