Mayer Quotes & Sayings

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so. — Marissa Mayer

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations. — Marissa Mayer

The new, hyper-partisan think tanks had impact far beyond Washington. They introduced doubt into areas of settled academic and scientific scholarship, undermined genuinely unbiased experts, and gave politicians a menu of conflicting statistics and arguments from which to choose. The benefit was a far more pluralistic intellectual climate, beyond liberal orthodoxy. — Jane Mayer

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it. — John Mayer

When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make 'Snow White.' He saw there was a real opportunity to change the world. — Ryan Kavanaugh

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne. — Mayer Hawthorne

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. — John Mayer

Everything outside of here is vulnerable, but this tower, this room, is where we can make a stand if we have to. This is our Alamo."
"Everybody died at the Alamo. What's the midway, the Little Big Horn?" Ethan looked at her, exasperated. She shrugged. "I'm just saying that ifyou want to rally the troops, avoid the A word. — Jennifer Crusie

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs. — John Mayer

My hits are not hits. — John Mayer

I don't have anybody telling me what to do. — John Mayer

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation. — John Mayer

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment. — John Mayer

The world is not yet redeemed. — Isaac Mayer Wise

Marvin Gaye was the ultimate ladies' man and a big part of that was the way he dressed. If you're having trouble getting ladies, step your suit game up and see the difference. Walk into a bar in a tailored suit and I guarantee every girl will check you out. — Mayer Hawthorne

I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly. — John Mayer

Scott Buchanan ... taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking. — Milton Mayer

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts. — John Mayer

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. — Mayer Hawthorne

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent. — Marissa Mayer

Pick something and make it great. — Marissa Mayer

Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there. — Mayer Hawthorne

People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook. — Marissa Mayer

You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.' — John Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work. — Bob Mayer

I wanted to tell him a story, but I didn't. It's a story about a Jew riding in a streetcar, in Germany during the Third Reich, reading Goebbels' paper, the Volkische Beobachter. A non-Jewish acquaintance sits down next to him and says, "Why do you read the Beobachter?" "Look," says the Jew, "I work in a factory all day. When I get home, my wife nags me, the children are sick, and there's no money for food. What should I do on my way home, read the Jewish newspaper? Pogrom in Romania' 'Jews Murdered in Poland.' 'New Laws against Jews.' No, sir, a half-hour a day, on the streetcar, I read the Beobachter. 'Jews the World Capitalists,' 'Jews Control Russia,' 'Jews Rule in England.' That's me they're talking about. A half-hour a day I'm somebody. Leave me alone, friend. — Milton Sanford Mayer

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic. — Marissa Mayer

Lets keep the car in drive and leave it all behind — John Mayer

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit. — John Mayer

I've come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important. — Marissa Mayer

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work ... So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.. — Marissa Mayer

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me. — John Mayer

The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life. — Marissa Mayer

People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious. — Mayer Hawthorne

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. — John Mayer

Don't let them see how fast you really are; don't let them see the control you have, the ability you have to read them and the situation. Let them think you're out of control. Let them think you are going to be easy. Because they will be anything but, and you need to be ready for the fight of your life. — Shannon Mayer

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you. — Marissa Mayer

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation. — Robert Mayer

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things. — Mayer Hawthorne

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios. — Mayer Hawthorne

Survival instincts screamed at her to run. White agony dropped her in place. — Dale Mayer

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision. — Marissa Mayer

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. — John Mayer

The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work. — Marissa Mayer

people then products then traffic then revenue." The people are supposed to come for the coolness: Yahoo! demonstrated design awareness by overhauling its logo, it asserted youthful relevance by acquiring hot startups like Tumblr, and it has gained media attention for Mayer's own star power. But the big question is what products Yahoo! will actually create. — Peter Thiel

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid. — Mayer Hawthorne

Add boyish, slim as a board, pancake. It's okay, I've heard it all."

He raised his head and said mildly, "I wasn't thinking in terms of your chest size."

"Good thing as I don't have one." She smirked and popped a big chunk of potato into her mouth. "The nice thing is I can run without those things flying in my face, too." And damn if she didn't make a comical face that had him shouting with laughter. — Dale Mayer

Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well. — Marissa Mayer

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant. — Taylor Swift

Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now. — Louis B. Mayer

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. — John Mayer

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble. — Mayer Hawthorne

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you. — John Mayer

Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary. — Martin Mayer

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do. — Louis B. Mayer

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song. — Susane Colasanti

What worries me," he adds, "is that this circus-like atmosphere may have scared off many young scientists. It actually has a chilling effect. It prevents scientists from participating in the public discourse, because they fear they, or their department head, will be threatened. — Jane Mayer

I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done! — John Mayer

You will see. Pain and love, they are married. But without pain, love would not be powerful like it is. — Shannon Mayer

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original. — Mayer Hawthorne

When informed of her husband's latest suicide, Louise began — Kori Mayer

Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to ... we're slow dancing in a burning room!!! — John Mayer

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble — Marissa Mayer

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. — John Mayer

Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character). — Bob Mayer

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless. — John Mayer

Pundits, opponents, and disillusioned supporters would blame Obama for squandering the promise of his administration. Certainly he and his administration made their share of mistakes. But it is hard to think of another president who had to face the kind of guerrilla warfare waged against him almost as soon as he took office. A small number of people with massive resources orchestrated, manipulated, and exploited the economic unrest for their own purposes. They used tax-deductible donations to fund a movement to slash taxes on the rich and cut regulations on their own businesses. While they paid focus groups and seasoned operatives to frame these self-serving policies as matters of dire public interest, they hid their roles behind laws meant to protect the anonymity of philanthropists, leaving more folksy figures like Santelli to carry the message. — Jane Mayer

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law. — Judy Garland

B4 U,my life ws lyk a moonless night.Very dark, but der wer stars,points of light & reason.And den you shot
across my sky like a meteor.Suddenly everythng ws on fire;ter ws
brilliancy,der ws beauty.Wen u wer gone,wen d meteor had
fallen over d horizon,everythng went black.Nothing had changed,but
my eyes wer blinded by d light I cudn't c d stars anymore & ter was no more reason, for anything. — Stephanie Mayer

I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something. — John Mayer

You sure?" "Nope." "Excellent, I was worried you suddenly had a plan. — Shannon Mayer

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor. — John Mayer

Every time you walk into church, the first thing you see is a man on a cross. He died to save us-not to give us everything we want-to save us. That's what's so hard to understand. It's not about him answering your prayers-it's about you being like him not matter what happens on this Earth. 'Thy will be done.' There will always be sadness and pain. — Jack Mayer

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy. — Luise Rainer

When I went into the business, I sat down and figured that I was indeed one of fortune's children. Just think. There were 20 million buffalo, each worth at least $3
$60 million. At the very outside, cartridges cost 25 cents each, so every time I fired one I got my investment back twelve times over. I could kill a hundred a day ... That would be $6,000 a month
or three times what was paid, it seems to me, the President of the United States. Was I not lucky that I discovered this quick and easy way to fortune? I thought I was. — Frank Mayer

Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe — John Mayer

Content is King. Promotion is Queen — Bob Mayer

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like, but I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose. — John Mayer

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack. — Louis B. Mayer

dazed mind. Early morning rays highlighted the water stains shining through the slap-dash — Dale Mayer

An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously. — John D. Mayer

When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want. — John Mayer

Hey, if you can't fix it, let someone else fix it for you. — Melody Mayer

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months. — Marissa Mayer

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep. — John Mayer

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. — Isaac Mayer Wise

change, had been a featured guest at a fund-raiser that David Koch hosted for about seventy of the — Jane Mayer

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody. — John Mayer

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve. — Marissa Mayer

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't — John Mayer

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.' — John Mayer

I really don't want to be a hunk. — John Mayer

When you learn to love your own company, you become far more careful about whom you spend your time with. — Katrina Mayer

Numb is the new deep. — John Mayer

I am not in Us Weekly . I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself. — John Mayer

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain. — John Mayer

I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention. — Mayer Hawthorne

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next. — Marissa Mayer