Marc Newson Quotes
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'
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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
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If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
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The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.
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We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.
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At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream.
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My God, I will not abide plundering, especially by officers. How can you expect obedience from the men when officers are corrupt?
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I don't mind either one crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.
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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
