Blumberg Quotes & Sayings

When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to them because you've created them. — Alex Blumberg

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting. — Stuart Blumberg

What I learned was there are hormones, and most people are sexual. They may go through stages where they might do things where they go above and beyond, but this is something else. — Stuart Blumberg

Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas. — Thomas Paine

I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point. — Alex Blumberg

Pluto is cold; Chicago in January is merely inconvenient. — Mark Blumberg

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been. — Alex Blumberg

Paul Blumberg writes: "A Massachusetts Act of 1651, for example, prohibited status disguises in such matters as dress, and declared 'our utter detestation and dislike that men and women of meane Condition should take upon themselves the garb of gentlemen, by wearing gold and silver, lace or buttons, or points at their knees or to walk in bootes or women of the same rancke to wear silke or tiffany horlles or scarfes, which though allowable to persons of greater estates, or more liberal education, yet we cannot but judge it intollerable in persons of such like condition. — Diego Gambetta

One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy. — Alex Blumberg

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way. — Alex Blumberg

There are tons of businesses that exist in the United States. An insane number of people who are in business for themselves. And then there are people on board feeling they're at key early stages of companies. — Alex Blumberg

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it. — Alex Blumberg

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting. — Alex Blumberg

People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do. — Alex Blumberg

No other thinker was so well prepared to give new impetus to the philosophical questions of the younger generation. Though many of his students and successors have attained a higher degree of exactitude and adequacy in their logical analyses of problems in the theory of knowledge, [Moritz] Schlick had an unsurpassed sense for what is essential in philosophical issues. — Albert Blumberg

It was hard to describe what she had sensed, but it had been distinct and clear, like the shape of a leafless tree against the sky, or a crow flying across a ploughed field. She hesitated to close her eyes again, for it had risen up close to her face like something appalling. — Jessica Rydill

Sleep is death enjoyed. — Friedrich Hebbel

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking. — Alex Blumberg

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you — Alex Blumberg

Startups aren't about reading the crystal ball; they're about your ability to react. — Matt Blumberg

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.' — Rachel Sklar

My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up. — David Plotz

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My death will probably be caused by being sarcastic at the wrong time. - TRUE FACT — Darynda Jones

Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see. — Stuart Blumberg