Daniel Burrus Quotes

There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

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• I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Own

• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Business
  • Our
  • Smallest

• It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Children
  • Honor

• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Objects
  • Processes

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Hope
  • Going
  • Greece

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • America
  • How

• As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Food
  • Child
  • Fly

• I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Moral

• He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Way
  • Service
  • Used

• I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Reason
  • Film
  • Visual

• Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Political
  • Lost

• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • Job
  • Serious

• Something may be fully approved of … well transmitted … well cogitated ... well pondered, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be well pondered, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken. Under these conditions it is not proper for a wise man who preserves truth to come to the definite conclusion: ‘Only this is true, anything else is wrong.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Truth
  • Conditions
  • Conclusion

• Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Flower
  • Littles

• There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

  

  Daniel Burrus
  • Advantage
  • Everyone
  • Competitive