Jeff Bezos Quotes

It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today...

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• We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Day
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Me
  • Attitude

• I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Book

• An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Police
  • Without
  • Executive

• When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• For kids it's natural to be competitive.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Kids
  • Natural
  • Competitive

• I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Sex

• People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Political
  • Trump

• Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Light

• I'd love to time travel.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Love
  • Travel

• That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • War
  • Luck

• When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

  

  Jacques Parizeau
  • People

• Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Wine

• The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Long
  • Period
  • Dedication

• The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

  

  Konrad Adenauer

• I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Winter

• I like being around people.

  

  LeBron James
  • People

• Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Great
  • Powerful

• Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • True
  • Mathematical

• Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Story

• To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

  

  Plato
  • May
  • Silence

• It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today...

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Healthy-encouraged
  • Idea tomorrow
  • Idea today