Jeff Bezos Quotes

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Looking
  • Jeans
  • Potato

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Community
  • Pain
  • Military

• I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Parsi
  • Kashmiri

• Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• Listen, if you guys wanna move around a bit and shake your asses, it's okay. It's okay by us. You can take all your clothes off if you like, too. It doesn't matter... Fuck off! laughs

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen

• Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Light

• I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Leaving

• I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • May

• When you walk off the stage, I think the end point is that you enjoyed yourself. I get to say that almost every time - either I made a few new fans or something resonated.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Time

• My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

  

  David Caruso
  • May

• It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

  

  Lianne La Havas
  • Important
  • Lyrics

• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Habit
  • Acquire
  • Good Action

• Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

  

  Jim Jeffords
  • Education

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Progress
  • Mediocre theoretical physicists