Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Steve Jobs

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Steve Jobs

Click. Boom. Amazing!

Steve Jobs

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Steve Jobs

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Steve Jobs

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

Steve Jobs

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Steve Jobs

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Steve Jobs

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Steve Jobs

When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

Steve Jobs

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

Steve Jobs

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Steve Jobs

The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

Steve Jobs

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

Steve Jobs

I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Steve Jobs

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Steve Case

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

Stephen Spender

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Stephen Sondheim

Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

Stephen Gaghan

We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.

Stephen Graham

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

Mother Teresa

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Mother Teresa

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Mother Teresa

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Mother Teresa

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Mother Teresa

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Mother Teresa

Live simply so others may simply live.

Mother Teresa

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Teresa

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.