Parker Harris Quotes
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
-
I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
-
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
-
I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
-
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
-
I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
-
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
-
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
-
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
-
When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
-
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
-
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
-
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
-
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
-
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
-
I only know what I read in the papers.
-
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
-
I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with.
-
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
-
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
-
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
