Adam Neumann Quotes

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

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• I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Audience
  • Started
  • Pilot

• I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Benefit

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Future
  • Man
  • Dog

• I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hair
  • Natural
  • Week

• The world is in motion, as it seems.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • World
  • Seems
  • Motion

• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • War
  • Peace
  • Stop

• If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Children
  • Worry

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Always

• Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Grow
  • Cash

• When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Sometimes
  • Learn
  • Daily

• Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • Most
  • Ordinary

• In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Writing
  • Want
  • End

• A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Ambition

• In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Eyes

• 'You’re bright,' Lupe said to her softly. 'Very bright, but stubborn. You think you can choose your realities. You can’t.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• Myrdalian ex ante language would have saved the General Theory from describing the flow of investment and the flow of saving as identically, tautologically equal, and within the same discourse, treating their equality as a condition which may, or not, be fulfilled.

  

  G. L. S. Shackle
  • Investment
  • Myrdalian
  • Identically

• Playing weird and quirky characters, like those with weird nuances, I find very interesting.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Remember
  • Hurt
  • Learn

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Writing
  • Song

• New York is the new Silicon Valley.

  

  Adam Neumann