Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
To lead people walk behind them.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won’t start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won’t start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
If you are curious, you’ll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you’re friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Let them hate so long as they fear.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’
Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
