George Nelson Quotes

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Technology
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Artist
  • Journalist
  • Rather

• At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • World
  • Happy

• I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Money
  • Business
  • Value

• I'm a television junkie.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Television

• The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • America
  • Future

• So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Want
  • Religion
  • Expectations

• I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Party
  • Friend

• On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Country
  • Rock

• As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Yourself
  • Actor
  • Easy

• If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Look

• Die Klasse, welche die herrschende materielle Macht der Gesellschaft ist, ist zugleich ihre herrschende geistige Macht. Die Klasse, die die Mittel zur materiellen Produktion zu ihrer Verfügung hat, disponiert damit zugleich über die Mittel zur geistigen Produktion.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

  

  Livy
  • Sea
  • Wind

• My philosophy is to use the stones hurled at me to make a bridge for myself; I believe in proving my critics wrong through my work. I keep saying, the more muck you throw at me, the brighter will the BJP lotus bloom. That is the nature of the lotus, it rises out of keechhad (slush) to create exquisite beauty.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Nature

• My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.

  

  Betty Parsons
  • Work
  • Husband

• The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

  

  George Nelson
  • Work
  • Way
  • Creative