Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

Jonathan Sacks

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ScienceWhyWillExplainTellUs

It feels, to me, when you're with someone you really love, you never look at your phone.

Matthew Gray Gubler

LoveMeSomeoneYouLookPhone

By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.

Stefan Sagmeister

ServiceInfluenceBrandCompanyFar

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

Roy Blunt

HealthTimePeopleProblemsViolence

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Don King

StrengthManI AmPeopleMeBetter

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

Denise Mina

ChildrenGreatPeopleReadingNobody

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

Clifford Odets

LifeAloneTimeSoulHappyNight

You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.

Bobby Kotick

WorkYouGoNextOutThings

You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.

Susanne Bier

WinYouAlwaysGoingMovieAfter

Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue.

Susan Wojcicki

BusinessWantGoogleSeeRevenue

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Paul Valery

WorkArtArtistNeverHeHis

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

Paul Weller

CarPeopleListeningStartDriving

I'm not a hat person. I really don't like wearing things on my head.

Kylie Bax

HatPersonHeadThingsLikeWearing

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