Marc Benioff Quotes

January was not our best month ever, far from it, and that was disappointing.

Marc Benioff

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• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Society
  • Teacher

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • Find
  • Priority

• I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Stupid
  • Blind
  • Terrorism

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Work
  • Women
  • Equal Pay

• I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Care
  • Say
  • Less

• Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • America
  • Honor

• I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Important
  • Think

• Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • High

• An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Canvas

• It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • City
  • California
  • Down

• I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Stuff

• I try to stay in decent shape.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Try
  • Shape
  • Decent

• People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Forget

• People ask me all the time how I prepare and, to tell you the truth, I think if what's on the page is rich and compelling, as far as I'm concerned, if it's beautifully presented on the page, all you have to do is put yourself there and pretend, and the rest takes care of itself. That is, unless it's a real stretch with an accent or if history matters where research has to be done.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Real
  • Care
  • Rich

• The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  

  Silvan Shalom
  • Terrorist
  • Implement
  • Dismantle

• It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Different
  • Working
  • Immediacy

• Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Christmas
  • Kid
  • Presents

• January was not our best month ever, far from it, and that was disappointing.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Month
  • Disappointing
  • January