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

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

  

  Hans Frank
  • Police
  • Without
  • Executive

• 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

• 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

• Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

  

  Anne Robinson
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• For me, the hip word is 'mutate.' We're ripening all the time.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Time

• Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Home
  • Missing

• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • Years
  • Said

• Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Picture

• I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Work
  • Happy

• I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Learn
  • Pay Attention
  • Listeners

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

  

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