Brian Patten Quotes

Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Story
  • Fiction
  • Line

• Anybody can leap off a building.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Building
  • Anybody
  • Leap

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Women
  • Sex

• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Serious

• I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn'€™t think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Up
  • Children
  • Advice

• I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Business
  • Technology

• As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

  

  Mark Shields

• My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Up
  • Aunt

• To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Moving
  • Painting

• In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Best
  • Maturity
  • In The End

• It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Stars
  • Laughter

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Conscious

• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Believe
  • Silence
  • Flower

• Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

  

  Brian Patten
  • Silence
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