Legrain Quotes

#1. What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

Russell Simmons

#2. I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

Anne Hathaway

#3. He answered her with a kiss. It was more than hungry; it was filled with months' worth of fear and uncertainty and longing. It was a thousand I'm sorrys and ten thousand I love yous.

Heather Huffman

#4. I think I am an adult.

Jacqueline Bisset

#5. A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Jakob Dylan

#6. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#8. Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. You know, we're going to start using our phones for shopping. It's going to change the nature of advertising.

Tim O'Reilly

#9. Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate.

Bertolt Brecht

#10. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body knows what it's about, but forty is an adolescence where one sleeps to grow up or to stay young.

John Le Carre

#11. Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one.

Jessica Livingston

#12. 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

Ben Fountain

#13. Thank you for bringing me home.

Lara Adrian

#14. Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.

Cameron Stracher

#15. Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

Luke Harding