Steve Alten Quotes

Three lights should be fine." - Zachary
"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse." - True MacDonald ~ Steve Alten

That's easy. Any man who cannae keep his balls oot o' the water needs tae get laid. Come on, let's find my sister. ~ Steve Alten

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them. ~ Steve Alten

For the starship's inhabitants, time now stands still.
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ... ~ Steve Alten

Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave? ~ Steve Alten

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand. ~ Steve Alten

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance. ~ Steve Alten

An older, inebriated Scot who looked like he'd been sitting on his barstool all day looked me up and down, then smelled the air. "Heh, neebr, goat a deid an'mal in yer bac'pac, or iz it ye tha' bloody stinks?"
My brain took a moment to translate. "Actually, yes, there is a dead animal in my backpack, but I probably stink, too. ~ Steve Alten

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment. ~ Steve Jobs

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too! ~ Steve Goodier

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius. ~ Lupita Nyong'o

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours. ~ Steve McConnell

Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change. ~ Steve Maraboli

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. ~ Steve Jobs

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans. ~ Loudon Wainwright III

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. ~ Steve Earle

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be. ~ Steve Nash

Don't wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain. ~ Steve Rizzo

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA. ~ Steve Nash

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience. ~ Steve Cosson

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.' ~ Steve Erickson

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. ~ Steve Guttenberg

Pay attention... When a person is gossiping, you are learning more about them and their character than anything they are gossiping about. ~ Steve Maraboli

You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You're in it together. To a degree that people don't realize, documentary films - or at least the kind of documentary films I'm interested in - are a collaborative undertaking with the subjects. ~ Steve James

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view. ~ Steve McCurry

My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book. ~ Steve Valentine

No matter who you are, who your parents are, you have innate genome flaws, and we do not yet know enough about the vast majority of these potential flaws, and their true risks, to make really intelligent choices. ~ Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares? ~ Steve Guttenberg

It wasn't very long after I'd divorced Alice and met Candi that we decided to get married. She had an uncle down in San Diego who made jewelry, and I had this idea. Let's get a ring for me, I said, that has the diamond on the inside so nobody can see it. I thought that would be more special than a normal ring. ~ Steve Wozniak

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~ Steve Jobs

You get some success. You run into some walls ... it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success. ~ Steve Ballmer

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year. ~ Steve Irwin

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state. ~ Steve Martin

I've been doing my record label for 15 years called Dim Mak. I started my label when I was 19 in '96. I started putting out an eclectic roster of artists. In 2003, we found a band called Bloc Party, and in 2004, we started getting remixes for Bloc Party, and at the same time I was throwing Dim Mak parties in Los Angeles. ~ Steve Aoki

My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you. ~ Steve Scalise

8-Push all your own buttons:
Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel.
Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation. ~ Steve Chandler

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us. ~ Steve Aylett

Residual income is passive income that comes in every month whether you show up or not. It's when you no longer get paid on your personal efforts alone, but you get paid on the efforts of hundreds or even thousands of others and on the efforts of your money! It's one of the keys to financial freedom and time freedom. ~ Steve Fisher

Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you. ~ Steve Maraboli

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere. ~ Steve Cropper

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. ~ Steve Coogan

You know what I really love the most in life? Food. Yep, just food. I love the cooking of food, the eating of food, the talking about food, the thinking about food, and the dreaming about food. Food, food, food. That's what I love. Can there be anything more Hobbity than that? I reckon not. ~ Steve Bivans

Self-love isn't always so poetic; sometimes it's a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You've got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive. ~ Steve Maraboli

I notice you have the assault proof vest -
So it's my fault I guess.
So apparently I didn't say 'no' as loud as my clothes could say 'yes.'
You see I didn't know that my 'no' wasn't enough -
I didn't understand that my body became less precious
because certain dresses
make me look hot.
And I guess if I'm wearing the wrong top
then my 'yes' is the same as 'stop.'
And you shouldn't have to, just because I begged you to.
I'm begging you -
Tell me the magic outfit and I'll buy it.
Apparently my 'no' wasn't heard,
even when I screamed.
So I need my clothes to be quiet. ~ Connell, Steve

All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do. ~ Steve Jobs

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all. ~ Steve McCurry

Over the years of seeing people suffer some terrible life events and situations, I am struck by those who chose to make the best of it and come back smiling and positive. Cruel as it may seem, you are still left with a choice to accept and move on into happiness or remain where you are and live with bitterness or anger. Anger is usually easier to hold on to than going through grief but anger doesn't help anyone ~ Steve Peters

One day, soon after the Buddha's enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the Buddha, but he could see that there was something different about the man who was approaching, so he was moved to ask, Are you a god? ~ Steve Hagen

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes. ~ Steve Schirripa

Shooting in sequence, I think it intensifies everybody's relationship, the crew, the actors. You have to be very focused, and shooting at night is a challenge because you get tired. I think it requires a special kind of concentration, but it's also exhilarating. ~ Steve Buscemi

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. ~ Steve Maraboli