Clara Shih Quotes

There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.

Clara Shih

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Good
  • Try

• Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • You
  • Understand

• When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Work
  • Live
  • Children

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Night
  • Air
  • Cold

• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Oppression
  • Dislike

• Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Important
  • True

• I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Country
  • City

• At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Happy
  • Door

• The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Different
  • Women

• My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • Job
  • Couple

• I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Character

• You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler

• Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • World
  • Taken
  • Option

• Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Black
  • Blue
  • Pink

• I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • School
  • Myself
  • Intelligent

• Trust me: Every entrepreneur has felt like an utter loser at some point.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Trust
  • Entrepreneur

• In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Mom

• You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Al Michaels
  • Life
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur

• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Wish
  • Sorrow

• There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Entrepreneur