Arthur Goldberg Quotes

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Arthur Goldberg

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
  • Thought
  • Birthday
  • Mail

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Love
  • Me
  • Motivates

• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Dark
  • Child
  • Celebrity

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

  

  Pam Gems
  • Heart
  • Drama
  • Said

• What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

  

  Kate Millett
  • Children
  • Freedom
  • Sex

• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Party
  • Purpose

• Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Experience
  • Hand

• I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Nice

• I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • motivation
  • Kicked

• IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Reality

• If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

  

  Alfred Brendel

• I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Done
  • Helping
  • Challenges

• As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.

  

  John Ridley
  • America
  • Black
  • Small

• No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Opportunity
  • Decision

• Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.

  

  Peter Marshall
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's Kessler insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Band
  • Successful
  • Insight

• If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

  

  Arthur Goldberg