J. Irwin Miller Quotes

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

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• When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Rain

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Big
  • Club
  • Straight

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

  

  Flume
  • Different
  • Home
  • Feel

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Flying

• I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Record

• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Love
  • Think
  • Person

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Up

• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Society

• I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Lazy

• I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Up
  • World
  • Small

• It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Time
  • World
  • Business