Richard Florida Quotes

#1. I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.

Jake Miller

#2. Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.

Richard Florida

#3. Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

Richard Florida

#4. It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.

Richard Florida

#5. The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He - or she - is the new mainstream.

Richard Florida

#6. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?

Carson McCullers

#7. Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Richard Florida

#8. When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.

Joseph Murphy

#9. I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

Dan Gilroy

#10. Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Richard Florida

#11. Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

Richard Florida

#12. We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

John Hope

#13. When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though.

Steve Buscemi

#14. Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

Richard Florida

#15. I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

Richard Florida

#16. Think of the cold Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, or the monk who tries to eliminate all humor in The Name of the Rose, or the frowning Koran burners of Florida. Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.

Richard Rohr

#17. We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

Antonio Damasio

#18. I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Marilynne Robinson

#19. When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burnt down.

Richard Bachman

#20. I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes.

Adrian Pasdar

#21. Now," he rolled me to my back, "with all that shit, I'm not fine." His mouth came to mine. "So we're fucking until I feel better.

Kristen Ashley

#22. Snoop is a tour de force! It's one of the smartest and most original books I've come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

Richard Florida

#23. Of course
the New Testament is very small.
Its mouth opens four times
as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
yet somehow man-made ...

Anne Sexton

#24. People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

Richard Florida

#25. In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#26. As the economy has become more specialized and the occupational division of labor has deepened, the Creative Class has increasingly outsourced functions that were previously provided within the family to the Service Class.

Richard Florida

#27. We could never have guessed
We were already blessed
where we are ...

James Taylor

#28. Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work - the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

Richard Florida

#29. Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Richard Florida

#30. Denser cities are smarter and more productive

Richard Florida

#31. To sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;

Richard Ford