Steve Jobs Motivational Quotes & Sayings

Listen,' said Morrel; 'it is not the first time you have contemplated our present position, which is a serious and urgent one; I do not think it is a moment to give way to useless sorrow; leave that for those who like to suffer at their leisure and indulge their grief in secret. There are such in the world, and God will doubtless reward them in heaven for their resignation on earth, but those who mean to contend must not lose one precious moment, but must return immediately the blow which fortune strikes. Do you intend to struggle against our ill-fortune?.. — Alexandre Dumas

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we? — Al Meyerhoff

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday. — Steve Jobs

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. — Ang Lee

[I]f you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised. You will always be missing another place, and no national logic will ever again seem fully obvious to you. — Andrew Solomon

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better. -Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs

Never settle for average — Steve Jobs

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion. — Thomas Bangalter

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. — Shana Alexander

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd

An individual in despair despairs over something ... In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper ... To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair. — Soren Kierkegaard

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. — Steve Jobs

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity. — Trinh T. Minh-ha

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? — Steve Jobs