Doe Quotes - Page 294

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.

It's the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!

What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?

Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

The thing about fame, is you never think it's going to happen to you. So when it does, it's sort of a shock. Some people are just better at it than others.