Jeff Bezos Quotes

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

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• My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
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• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
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• Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
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• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
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• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Think
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• There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Life
  • Beautiful
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• The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
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• What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

  

  Donald Miller
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• Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases.

  

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

• Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

  

  Confucius
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  • Matters

• Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

  

  Kary Mullis
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  • Driven

• I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.

  

  Freddie Ljungberg
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  • Few
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• Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Glimpse
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• As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Enough

• To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Focused
  • Stubborn