Top 100 Quotes About Bushnell
#1. Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?"
The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake."
"What book?"
"It's The Shadow Death Lexicon."
"Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.
J.R. Ward
#2. Wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with
Walter Isaacson
#3. Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.
Walter Isaacson
#4. Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.
Mark Batterson
#5. Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#6. ... when people love you, they show up. Sometimes that means that they get to bail you out of trouble. It's not bad when that happens; it just means that you return the obligation when you get the chance. You be a guy who is present instead of a fuck-up.
Jeremy Bushnell
#7. I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
Candace Bushnell
#8. No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing.
Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth
Candace Bushnell
#9. My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
Nolan Bushnell
#10. And then he was there, staring at me from behind the screen door. I'd like to say he no longer affected me, that seeing him was a disappointment. But it wasn't true. I felt as strongly about him as I had on that first day I'd seen him in calculus class.
Candace Bushnell
#11. I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.
Candace Bushnell
#12. There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
Horace Bushnell
#13. Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.
Horace Bushnell
#15. A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.
-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
Candace Bushnell
#16. You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
Candace Bushnell
#17. Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?
Candace Bushnell
#19. The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#20. Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.
Candace Bushnell
#21. Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.
Nolan Bushnell
#22. The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
Candace Bushnell
#24. From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#25. The desire for revenge rises within him, resplendent and gauche, like the phoenix on the hood of a Trans Am.
Jeremy Bushnell
#26. If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
Nolan Bushnell
#27. What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.
Candace Bushnell
#28. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.
Candace Bushnell
#29. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.
Candace Bushnell
#30. God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.
Horace Bushnell
#31. A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are.
Candace Bushnell
#32. If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck
Nolan Bushnell
#33. I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
Candace Bushnell
#35. The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#36. A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.
Candace Bushnell
#37. I like my money right where I can see it ... hanging in my closet
Candace Bushnell
#38. England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#39. I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
Nolan Bushnell
#40. Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#41. His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.
Candace Bushnell
#42. Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.
Candace Bushnell
#43. The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
Candace Bushnell
#44. I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
Candace Bushnell
#45. God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.
Horace Bushnell
#46. The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#47. Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.
Candace Bushnell
#48. From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true - he probably is.
Candace Bushnell
#49. The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
Nolan Bushnell
#50. She had very little money, but she wasn't afraid-there was only one place to go, and that was up.
Candace Bushnell
#51. I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
Candace Bushnell
#52. I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
Nolan Bushnell
#53. Christ is redemption only as He actually redeems and delivers our nature from sin. If He is not the law and spring of a new spirit of life, He is nothing. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," as many, no more.
Horace Bushnell
#54. Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.
Candace Bushnell
#55. I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.
Nolan Bushnell
#56. Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
Nolan Bushnell
#57. I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Candace Bushnell
#58. When it comes to people
don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
Candace Bushnell
#59. If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.
Candace Bushnell
#60. The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds
like one of those characters in a novel.
Candace Bushnell
#62. The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
Nolan Bushnell
#64. I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.
Nolan Bushnell
#66. Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.
Nolan Bushnell
#67. Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Nolan Bushnell
#69. You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy
because secretly, you don't want it to last.
Candace Bushnell
#70. What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?
Candace Bushnell
#71. We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
Candace Bushnell
#72. I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Candace Bushnell
#73. People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.
Candace Bushnell
#74. 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
Nolan Bushnell
#75. That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.
Candace Bushnell
#78. Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.
Candace Bushnell
#79. A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.
Horace Bushnell
#80. Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
Candace Bushnell
#82. I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.
Nolan Bushnell
#83. Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.
Nolan Bushnell
#84. If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
Horace Bushnell
#86. The one thing you have to remember about labels is that they only matter if you let them stick.
Candace Bushnell
#87. On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#88. Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.
Horace Bushnell
#89. If everyone in New York took sides over these petty, insignificant arguments, no one would have any friends at all.
Candace Bushnell
#90. Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell
#91. I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
Candace Bushnell
#92. Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
Horace Bushnell
#93. Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?
Candace Bushnell
#95. O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
Horace Bushnell
#96. There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
Candace Bushnell
#98. You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Candace Bushnell
#99. A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.
Nolan Bushnell
#100. In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
Nolan Bushnell
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