Quote by Walter Isaacson Download Open image ““There was never a good knife made of bad steel ”” — Walter Isaacson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left” — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
“But have a care! It is a bitter blade, and steel serves only those that can wield it. It will cut your hand as… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“The knife felt like hot iron in my fist. I hated myself for what I was going to do, and just as much for… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.” — Tibullus Copy Share Image
“No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.” — Tiziana Stupia Copy Share Image
“So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want… — Karen Traviss 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. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store-he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“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 to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“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
“CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high on the Forbes list he could get. Instead his ego needs and personal drives led him to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
