Kevin Systrom Quotes

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

Kevin Systrom

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• I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Doing
  • Problems
  • Working

• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • People
  • May
  • True

• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Leaders

• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  

  E. B. White
  • Power
  • Age
  • Man

• The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Career
  • Success
  • Beginning

• My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Mission

• Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Know
  • Language
  • Painting

• My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • World
  • She
  • Mother

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • First
  • Old
  • Boston

• Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • History
  • Think
  • Lose

• Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Hair
  • Serious

• It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Said
  • Bankruptcy

• When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Period

• The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Country
  • Unity

• I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.

  

  Manny Pacquiao

• …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • May
  • History

• Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

  

  James Dobson

• For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the term 'testimony' is a warm and familiar word in our religious expressions. It is tender and sweet. It has always a certain sacredness about it. When we talk about testimony, we refer to feelings of our heart and mind rather than an accumulation of logical, sterile facts.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Church

• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  

  Clive James
  • People
  • Sports
  • Shoes

• When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!

  

  Ernie Hudson
  • God
  • Asks
  • Yes

• It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

  

  Kevin Systrom