Mayer Quotes

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision. ~ Marissa Mayer

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band ~ John Mayer

There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing... ~ Robert Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader. ~ Bob Mayer

Aye, they be eggs alright, just not from thunder. They be Cinderflare's eggs. They be all broken 'cause the young'ns hatched a few months ago. ~ Shanon Mayer

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate. ~ Marissa Mayer

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone. ~ Marissa Mayer

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. ~ Marissa Mayer

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool. ~ John Mayer

The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from. ~ Marissa Mayer

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you. ~ John Mayer

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months. ~ Marissa Mayer

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy. ~ Marissa Mayer

I know what is in your mind and in the mind of the youth. I know that your mind has one purpose and his the same. I know what is in the mind of the earth and of the moon and of the sun. Yes, I know of this kingdom. it is farther then I have ever gone, but I will take you there if you will be brave, for you will not find a welcome with in that place. ~ Mercer Mayer

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ~ John Mayer

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

Pick something and make it great. ~ Marissa Mayer

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

I know the heart of life is good. ~ John Mayer

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured. ~ Jane Mayer

But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again. ~ Susane Colasanti

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant. ~ Marissa Mayer

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next. ~ Marissa Mayer

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. ~ John Mayer

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. ~ Marissa Mayer

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't. ~ John Mayer

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life. ~ John Mayer

I wanted to tell him a story, but I didn't. It's a story about a Jew riding in a streetcar, in Germany during the Third Reich, reading Goebbels' paper, the Volkische Beobachter. A non-Jewish acquaintance sits down next to him and says, "Why do you read the Beobachter?" "Look," says the Jew, "I work in a factory all day. When I get home, my wife nags me, the children are sick, and there's no money for food. What should I do on my way home, read the Jewish newspaper? Pogrom in Romania' 'Jews Murdered in Poland.' 'New Laws against Jews.' No, sir, a half-hour a day, on the streetcar, I read the Beobachter. 'Jews the World Capitalists,' 'Jews Control Russia,' 'Jews Rule in England.' That's me they're talking about. A half-hour a day I'm somebody. Leave me alone, friend. ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white. ~ John Mayer

I really love color. ~ Marissa Mayer

One should never anticipate what might be... rather enjoy the moment as it unfolds! :-) ~ Richard James Mayer

Why does a man want his children to be better than himself? ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day. ~ John Mayer

Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent, and usually negative symbol. McCarthy had a reputation for being a particularly shrewd consumer of O, or opposition research on the rival candidates he was targeting. He often honed his ads using polls, focus groups, micro-targeting data, and "perception analyzers" - meters that evaluated viewers' split-second reactions to demo tapes. McCarthy ~ Jane Mayer

Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so when it comes to true soul, the guy obviously is the expert. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

Writing is a lonely profession. ~ Bob Mayer

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does. ~ Marissa Mayer

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. ~ Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list. ~ Marissa Mayer

The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course. ~ Bob Mayer

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. ~ John Mayer

I leapt up behind Bella, Peta right behind me. She put herself between Bella and me, curling up in the puff of Bella's voluminous skirts. No ~ Shannon Mayer

To me, the future is personalization . ~ Marissa Mayer

As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, "blood," "folk-ishness") seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the "little man," the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon "intellectuals" as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated. Tailor ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

I refuse to be stereotyped. ~ Marissa Mayer

Doing scrum" is as meaningless (and impossible) as creating an instance of an abstract class. Scrum is a framework for surfacing organizational dysfunction. It is not a process and it is not prescriptive. ~ Tobias Mayer

I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised we non-Nazis were in 1933. When mass dictatorship occurred in Russia, then in Italy, we said to one another, 'That is what happens in backward countries. We are fortunate, for all our troubles, that it cannot happen here.' But it did, worse even than elsewhere, and I think that all the explanations leave some mystery. When I think of it at all, I still say, with unbelief, 'Germany - no, not Germany. ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right? ~ Marissa Mayer

normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation; as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of exertion they begin to degenerate sooner or later in body and mind. ~ Jane Mayer

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute. ~ John Mayer

I think I'd be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I'm a big fan of his music, and I think he's great. ~ Sterling Knight

Gillespie called the plan "REDMAP," an acronym for the Redistricting Majority Project. To implement it, he took over the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a nonprofit group that had previously functioned as a catchall bank account for corporations interested in influencing state laws. All he needed was enough money to put REDMAP into action. ~ Jane Mayer

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. ~ John Mayer

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ~ Isaac Mayer Wise

Nobody has proved to my friends that the Nazis were wrong about the Jews. Nobody can. The truth or falsity of what the Nazis said, and of what my extremist friends believed, was immaterial, marvelously so. There simply was no way to reach it, no way, at least, that employed the procedures of logic and evidence. The bill-collector told me that Jews were filthy, that the home of a Jewish woman in his boyhood town was a pigsty; and the baker told me that the Jews' fanaticism about cleanliness was a standing affront to the "Germans," who were clean enough. What difference did the truth, if there were truth, make? I ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done. ~ John Mayer

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats. ~ John Mayer

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. ~ John Mayer

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while. ~ Marissa Mayer

[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking? ~ Janet Evanovich

Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for ~ John Mayer

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that. ~ Marissa Mayer

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. ~ Maria Goeppert-Mayer

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values. ~ John Mayer

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing. ~ John Mayer

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. ~ Richard J. Mayer

You love who you love, who you love ~ John Mayer

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it. ~ John Mayer

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force. ~ Marissa Mayer

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. ~ Isaac Mayer Wise

I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year. ~ Marissa Mayer

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them. ~ John Mayer

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession. ~ Marissa Mayer

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. ~ John Mayer

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on. ~ Jane Mayer

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible. ~ John Mayer

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing. ~ Bob Mayer

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. ~ John Mayer

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs. ~ John Mayer

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ~ Jane Mayer

National Socialism brought dream and conformism together into something satanic. Each ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

Every time you walk into church, the first thing you see is a man on a cross. He died to save us-not to give us everything we want-to save us. That's what's so hard to understand. It's not about him answering your prayers-it's about you being like him not matter what happens on this Earth. 'Thy will be done.' There will always be sadness and pain. ~ Jack Mayer

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. ~ John Mayer

Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe ~ John Mayer

Congressman Upton insisted that he hadn't changed his position on environmental issues. But Jeremy Symons, then a senior vice president of the nonpartisan National Wildlife Federation, said that the transformation was "like night and day." He continued, "In the past the committee majority viewed the Clean Air Act as an effective way to protect the public. Now the committee treats the Clean Air Act and the EPA as if they are the enemy. Voters didn't ask for this pro-polluter agenda, but the Koch brothers spent their money well and their presence can be felt." At ~ Jane Mayer

If she lived here, the first thing she'd do is get out her paint brush and color the world. ~ Dale Mayer

dazed mind. Early morning rays highlighted the water stains shining through the slap-dash ~ Dale Mayer

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it. ~ John Mayer

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. ~ John Mayer

The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and selfish and unaccommodating and unresponsive it is, how dirty and noisy it is-and the next summer his neighbor goes to Paris. ~ Milton Mayer

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting. ~ Marissa Mayer

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day. ~ John Mayer

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked - if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in - your nation, your people - is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now y ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all. ~ Jackie Cooper

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. ~ John Mayer

Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am. ~ John Mayer