Bill Gates Quotes

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Bill Gates

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• I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Way
  • Talent

• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Words

• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Role
  • Written

• I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

  

  Jackie Collins
  • City
  • Try
  • Australia

• The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Mystery
  • Greatest

• If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • You
  • Funny
  • Say

• I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Speak

• Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

  

  William Boyd
  • Rejection
  • Tolerate
  • Humankind

• Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

  

  William Faulkner
  • People
  • Existence
  • Time Is

• There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Poverty

• Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

  

  Aime Martin
  • Laws
  • Slaves
  • Morals

• A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Information
  • Strategy
  • Fail

• There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

  

  Vash Young
  • Thoughts
  • Jump
  • River

• Vision without execution is daydreaming.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Execution
  • Daydreaming