Things Quotes

I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

I think that things happen for a reason.

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.