Jeff Bezos Quotes

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Window

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Doubt
  • Without
  • Machinery

• I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Love
  • Know

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Leave

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Beer

• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  

  J. T. Walsh
  • Going
  • Material
  • Metaphors

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Ornament
  • Graceful

• We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Long
  • Stand

• I'm a bit of a control freak.

  

  E. L. James
  • Control
  • Bit
  • Control Freak

• You can't rush an art form.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Art

• My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Work
  • Want
  • Process

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Light

• How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over the head with rocks and sticks. A primitive fury has been unleashed by a president who has no culture, who cannot read, and who wants to determine power and aggression.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • World
  • Thinking
  • President

• If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Things