Doe Quotes - Page 334

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

"Time" does not mean "occasion."

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

How far back does one's memory of someone go?

Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I’ve seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something's already happened, there's not a whole lot of whys and hows that go down. You just innately commit 'cause it happened. It does help with commitment.

It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.

So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)