Pico Iyer Quotes

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 11, 1957

Topics

PhonePhone CallPersonNeverOut

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

Andrew-Lee Potts

PlayWillTryNeverSameAlways

To know you're truly alive in wrestling, you have to constantly challenge yourself. You constantly have to do things that you're unsure you can do.

Matt Hardy

ChallengeYourselfYouAliveKnow

My grandfather has a big influence on me; without him, I wouldn't be where I am now.

Angelique Kerber

I AmMeInfluenceGrandfatherNow

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

MenManFightSafetyChanceBetter

India has introduced me to my ultimate passion - acting. I don't plan to give it up, and I intend to stay here for a long, long time.

Amy Jackson

PassionTimeMePlanLongActing

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Steve Garvey

GoalsYourselfYouWillPassionate

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.

Mike McCue

SchoolMeHigh SchoolSoftwareHigh

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

Luke Macfarlane

LiveArchitectureDesignChairHouse

I don't close the door to anything.

Dimitri Payet

DoorAnythingClose

Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.

Christian Slater

TeenPeopleMeYouDownSituation

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

Cindy Sheehan

LoyaltyRootsDemocracyValuesTrue

'Law & Order' is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn't a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we'd finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.

Bradley Walsh

FunLawStartLovedDoingHoliday

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