Gates Quotes - Page 10

• The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

  Eric Ries

  Fall, Zuckerberg, Class

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• Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Time, Real

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Strong, Height

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• People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

  Rufus Sewell

  Opportunity, Doors, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

  Maria Sharapova

  Block, Focus, Tennis

  "Sharapova Matches Court Brilliance With Heartfelt Speech After Winning 3rd Grand Slam Title". The Associated Press Report, www.espn.com. January 26, 2008.

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• I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

  William Shatner

  Book, Names, People

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• Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

  Mark Skousen

  Giving, Promise, Bills

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• If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

  Ben Stein

  Winning, Upset, Trying

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• Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

  Dylan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Needs

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• I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.

  Joss Whedon

  Hair, Perfect, Age

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• If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighborhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

  will.i.am

  Jobs, Ghetto, Zuckerberg

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

  Rob Zombie

  Time, Art, Done

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• When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Running, Jobs, Bills

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• Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Blow, Ukulele, People

  FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Oct 29, 2014

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• I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Hurt, Real, Book

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Keys, Blood

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• Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Strong, Kings

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

  John Milton

  Hands, Eden, Tears

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

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• If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.

  Michael J. Fox

  Taken, Years, Bills

  "Lucky Man: A Memoir". Book by Michael J. Fox, www.sfgate.com. 2002.

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• The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Angel

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.

  Louise Rennison

  Dad, Party, Next

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

  Cheyenne McCray

  New York, Library, Olivia

  Cheyenne McCray (2009). “Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

  Frank McCourt

  Gun, Race, Self

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• ...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.

  Janet Fitch

  Tired, Beer, Men

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.

  Emily Dickinson

  Angel, Simple, Done

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.204, First Avenue Editions

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