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Steve Jobs Quotes

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011

Topics

Leadership Quality Excellence People

I was born with the gift.

Gift Born I Was Born

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

Work Path Money Me Evil Down

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

Robert Gottlieb

Me Writing Start Never Decide

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Way Out Get How Figure Characters

I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't forcing them to laugh - it's involuntary, and that's when they give the most honest response.

Laugh You Strangers Stranger Honest

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

Society Talking Comfortable Never

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

Music Now More Crowd Different Like

I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

Work Theatre Small Free You Village

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Donald Rumsfeld

Path Forward Plan You Back Find

I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works - it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.

Time People Writing Start You Know

If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

Love Commitment Trees Think Forest

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Time Me Golf New Say Nothing

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