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

• And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Different
  • Heart
  • American

• Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco
  • Night
  • Magic
  • Moon

• The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn't want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren't growing and evolving.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • Up
  • Music
  • Remember

• A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Entrepreneur

• As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Focus
  • Entrepreneur

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

  

  Clara Shih
  • Entrepreneur