Jeff Coates Quotes & Sayings

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways. — Orlando Bloom

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?' — Damon Lindelof

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to perish through the present ones. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Over time I've learned, surprisingly, that it's tremendously hard to get teams to be super ambitious. It turns out most people haven't been educated in this kind of moonshot thinking. They tend to assume that things are impossible, rather than starting from real-world physics and figuring out what's actually possible. It's why we've put so much energy into hiring independent thinkers at Google, and setting big goals. Because if you hire the right people and have big enough dreams, you'll usually get there. And even if you fail, you'll probably learn something important. It's also true that many companies get comfortable doing what they have always done, with a few incremental changes. This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary. So you need to force yourself to place big bets on the future. — Eric Schmidt

Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east — Jackson Browne

You're going to stay here and help Daran in every way you can. Don't let him sink into melancholia the way his father has ... Now, pull yourself together. Blow your nose and fix your face. Daran's talking to the Rivan Warder right now. I'll take you to where they are, and then I have to leave."
"You're not even going to stay for the funeral?"
"I've got the funeral in my heart, Pol, the same as you have. No amount of ceremony's going to make it go away. Now go fix your face. You look awful. — David Eddings

Before I fell
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds
it was you I fell
in love with first. — Lang Leav

If I have anything, it's tenacity. — Hal Sparks

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother. — Gretchen Carlson