Vossoughi Quotes & Sayings

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience. — Sohrab Vossoughi

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not
present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation
prepared to receive us the instant we are born - a world furnished to
our hands, that cost us nothing? Is it we that light up the sun; that pour
down the rain; and fill the earth with abundance? Whether we sleep or
wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on. Are these things,
and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to, us? Can our gross
feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide? Or is
the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it
but a sacrifice of the Creator? — Thomas Paine

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity. — Donald Hall

When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word. — David Platt

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions. — Malcolm Fraser

I want balance in my life. — Ron Dellums

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts. — David Letterman

If I didn't stop falling down, my body was going to go on strike and refuse all movement. — Jaymin Eve

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. — Joseph Joubert

Nobody does anything for one reason. — Russell Banks

Yet, even allowing for these failings, was not St John Clarke still a person more like myself than anyone else sitting round the table? That was a sobering thought. He, too, for longer years, had existed in the imagination, even though this imagination led him (in my eyes) to a world ludicrously contrived, socially misleading, professionally nauseous. On top of that, had he not on this earlier occasion gone out of his way to speak a word of carefully hedged praise for my own work? Was that, therefore, an aspect of his critical faculty for which he should be given credit, or was it an even stronger reason for guarding against the possibility of corruption at the hands of one whose own writings could not be approved? — Anthony Powell

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts. — Michael Arrington

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation — Sohrab Vossoughi

So we said, "OK, we'll do Apple Computer." In those days there was no money yet in this microcomputer business, and big experienced companies and investors, analysts-those kind of people, that are trained in business and much smarter than we were-they didn't think that this was going to be a real big market. They thought it was going to be a little hobby thing, like home robots or ham radios, that a few techie people would get into and really it wasn't going to go to the masses. — Jessica Livingston

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity. — Sohrab Vossoughi

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic. — Jim Hamilton

There might be all these social media now but it's just a different century with the same kind of people with the same opinions. And opinions are like assholes, Vaughn. Everyone has one, and everyone knows one. Stop caring what everyone else thinks, and think about what you want. — Samantha Towle