Marc Newson Quotes

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

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• Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Health
  • Growth
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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.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Great
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• When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Promise
  • Something

• Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Myself
  • Singing

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
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• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Want
  • Enjoy

• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Me
  • Homeland
  • Kick

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Work
  • Education
  • Myself

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Act

• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Generosity
  • Ruin
  • Moderation

• 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.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Book
  • Organization

• I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Morning
  • Found
  • Mud

• If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • You
  • Disappointed
  • Score

• I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

  

  Iman
  • Believe
  • Vanity
  • Genes

• 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.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Reading
  • Stories
  • Enjoyed

• I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • People
  • Fun
  • Cool

• When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • School

• Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Idea
  • First
  • New

• Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Life
  • Love
  • Hope

• I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

  

  Marc Newson