Apples Quotes - Page 38

• The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Years, Sometimes

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• Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Up North, Research And Development

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, Jobs

  "Steve Jobs speaks out". archive.fortune.com. March 7, 2008.

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• When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Senior, Falling In Love

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• I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Creating Things, Years

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, War

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, October 5, 2011.

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• You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Perfect, Strategy

  Fortune magazine, September 18, 1995.

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• Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Believe, Attention

  "Steve Jobs, in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Boxes, Stores

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• I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

  Steve Jobs

  Expectations, Firsts, Would Be

  "Steve Jobs steps down as Apple CEO" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2011.

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• We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Numbers, People, Focus

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• All Satan's Apples Have Worms. I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Fake, Devil

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• Certainly, you may have been hurt beofre in love, but just because you get one bad apple doesn't mean they are all bad - and you can learn from the difficult ones.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Yoga, Mean

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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

  Samuel Foote

  Humorous, Cutting, Garden

  Quoted in Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy (1825).

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• This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.

  Frederick Franck

  Roots, Tree, Experience

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• Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

  Arthur Lismer

  Red, Paint

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Oil, Google, Amazon

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Rain, Light, Cities

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all the other computers and devices we use, but a wide array of devices to come.

  Bruce Tognazzini

  Ecosystems, Use, Computer

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• He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

  Billy Boyd

  Cameras, Throwing, Behinds

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• The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Too Late, Littles, Next

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• A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.

  Craig Stone

  Moving, Years, Mind

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• The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.

  William Allingham

  Winter, Autumn, Tree

  William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”, p.169

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• I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Block, Thinking

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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• You really have one bite at the apple.

  Mark Shields

  Bites

  Source: www.pbs.org

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