Virginia Postrel Quotes

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

InnovationKnowledgeProgressPlace

We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.

Jesse White

HonestyPlayTryFairSenseInstill

I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.

Jeff Buckley

GraceFreeBrickFeelingsMove On

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

Russell Smith

MenMeHatsWhyUnderstandNo Sense

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

Romeo Santos

OpportunityPeopleMeAppreciate

I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.

Mickalene Thomas

FocusYouLookArtistsWhoMedium

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

LifeLiveBusinessGreatSucceedUp

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

David Zucker

GoodTimePeopleMarketingOpening

There's no point about whining or complaining or screaming.

Anna Wintour

ComplainingPointWhiningScreaming

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

ThinkHardAnythingThingsWatch

Sometimes you need to speak up about what you're standing for.

Pierre Nanterme

SpeakYouSometimesNeedUpAbout

The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?

Noreena Hertz

WorkVisionChallengeIdentityWill

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

Nicolas Cage

HistoryManWeirdFeelConnection

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