Ted Engstrom Quotes

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Ted Engstrom

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LearningMistakesProcessDetermined

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

John Cusack

TalkingPersonUnderstandNeverSaw

I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

Mavis Staples

FatherMoneyPeopleMeLegacyStop

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.

Matt Ridley

FuturePastMeWorldBetterKnow

Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.

Angela Ahrendts

BusinessTodayGreatDesignYou

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

Michael Dell

DecisionDataRememberInformation

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Amy Winehouse

EmotionalOnlyPhysicalNeeds

My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief - to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.

Stef Wertheimer

GoodTogetherPurposePeopleBusy

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Tom Wolfe

MeWritingGymBackBloodNever

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

Cheo Hodari Coker

DreamBeingFinallyTVAchieved

I have done a lot of sci-fi, not out of choice, necessarily. It's just that I'm Canadian, and it's more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here.

Christina Cox

ChoiceDoneMoreOutUpHere

I grew up in New York City and in London.

Alissa Quart

New YorkCityNewLondonUpGrew

In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since.

Peter York

FutureCulturePeopleBlameWayBig

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