Alan W. Livingston Quotes

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

Alan W. Livingston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1917 - March 13, 2009

Topics

PeopleMeCrazyDetailHandAlways

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.

Jimmy Chamberlin

SayMoreFirstMusicallyStarted

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.

Joe Bob Briggs

FamilyGoodWineHatsYouNever

I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

Jennie Finch

LoveLosingWinningFeelingMean

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

John Katzman

TeamTryingYouWrongWantMeet

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Robert Redford

MoneyValueEndPlaceAchieving

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Roger McGuinn

WorkYouSaidOverYesOut

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

Robin Wright

NatureRedMeGoSayNever

I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.

Ruth Reichl

EggsWhateverMakeLikeAnybody

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Mo Ibrahim

AfricaNarrativeBecauseColonialism

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joseph Joubert

TimeWorldNowActBooksActed

Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process.

Debra Granik

PathProcessLongLookDownKind

We in Canada are not going to say Muslims are worse than Christians or are worse than Jews or are worse than atheists.

Chrystia Freeland

CanadaSayGoingWorseJewsThan

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