Virginia Postrel Quotes

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImaginationCompetitionIdeasLegacy

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

InspirationalLoveGreatWingsDeeds

Few people realize that luck is created.

Robert Kiyosaki

PeopleLuckRealizeCreatedFew

It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

Sue Wicks

BasketballHurtRoughAnyone

Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.

Tom Scholz

LiveAloneDayFunPeopleSinging

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

LoveHomeAlonePeopleGoStage

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Jon Katz

LifeChangeWritingAnimalsDogs

Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.

Dilip Shanghvi

WorkMoneyOutcomeIncidental

If you like vanilla, you're not going to like 'Breaking Bad' - you need to like a specific flavor that is unusual, that is different, that takes risks.

Bryan Cranston

RisksYouBadNeedGoingFlavor

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

Wolfgang Puck

TodayGreatChefEnoughYouSay

The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.

Paul Wesley

StoryThinkGoVampireSomething

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Tiger Woods

WorkPeopleMeWork EthicUnderstand

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

RelationshipArtI AmQuestioningAm

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