Alan Cooper Quotes

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

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• Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Power
  • House

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Today
  • Desire

• Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Best

• When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

  

  Quintilian
  • Hope
  • Win
  • Yield

• As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Meaningful
  • Authority
  • Him

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Brand
  • Data
  • Transparency

• I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Success
  • Star

• Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Military

• Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Win
  • Army
  • Run

• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• 'It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it...

  

  Anna Sui
  • True
  • Dream
  • Fashion

• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it.

  

  Dave Mason
  • Guitar
  • Players
  • Take

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

  

  Jimmy Garoppolo
  • High
  • Pretty

• Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer (slurring): Aboard airplane Stewardess, could you get me another drink?

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Lawyer
  • Airplane

• The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until toLincolnmorrow what you can do today.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rule
  • Leading
  • Diligence

• E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

  

  Alan Cooper