Best Quotes Around the World

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment – working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

I never expected to be anybody important.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Remember that credit is money.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.