James Rouse Quotes

#1. Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

James Rouse

#2. The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal.

Enrico Letta

#3. Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

James Rouse

#4. Cities must be fun.

James Rouse

#5. When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Stephen King

#6. Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Anders Holm

#7. There is no beast without cruelty

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

James Goldsmith

#9. Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

James Rouse

#10. Whatever ought to be, can be.

James Rouse

#11. Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

Steven Levenkron

#12. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told. The

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. believe you can and you're already halfway there

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.

Umar

#15. She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.

Adam Gidwitz

#17. Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

James Rozoff

#18. We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Vinod Khosla

#19. I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

Gautama Buddha

#20. For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

James Rouse