Makers Quotes · Page 5

I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on…

— Rafael van der Vaart

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship…

— Fred Wilson

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,…

— Alexander Pope

The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine…

— George F. Richards

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The…

— Majora Carter

How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process…

— Barack Obama

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

— Lawrence Welk

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and…

— Khaled Hosseini

Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

— Edward Weston

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

— Max McKeown

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

— Jim Carrey

The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers…

— Steven Machat

Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be…

— Paul Samuelson

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who…

— Bronwyn Bishop

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things.…

— Terry Pratchett

I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy…

— Richard Rorty

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

— Peter Eisenman

Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the…

— Tom Peters

My field-mouse had made a set of brand-new tracks; here and there they etched themselves, following the brown flowers. It seemed as…

— Anne Bosworth Greene

I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes…

— Olaf Stapledon

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who…

— Swami Vivekananda

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

— Theophile Gautier

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

— Napoleon Hill

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

— Zadie Smith