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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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.
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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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'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''
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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
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The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
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There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
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It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different - Salma
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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
