He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“His goal was to be vigilant against " the bozo explosion" that leads to a company's being larded with second rate talent:… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“God is “all wise, all good, all powerful,” he posited. Therefore, everything that exists or happens is with his consent. “What He… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Sketches Einstein: His Life and Universe A Benjamin Franklin Reader Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Kissinger: A Biography The Wise Men: Six… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Everything you’ve ever done in your life is shit,” Jobs said, “so why don’t you come work for me?” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Even a genius like Schopenhauer was crushed by unemployment,” he wrote. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“It’s one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image