Walter Isaacson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.”
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“Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.”
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“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.”
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“I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.”
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“It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.”
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“I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.”
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“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
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“Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.”
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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.†And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)”
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“By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.”
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“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”
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“Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
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“I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something”
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“The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.”
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“Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world”
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“When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.”
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“The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,†he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.”
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“We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters”
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“The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.”
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“I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.”
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“But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.”
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“I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.”
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“You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. “Steve Jobs.†Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.”
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“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.”
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“i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”
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“On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.”
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“One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters”
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“Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books”
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“Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute”
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“Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.”
-- Walter Isaacson
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