PJ Harvey Quotes

I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!

For the real winners, there are no finish lines.

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The sale begins when the customer says yes.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

I'm not mean, just aggressive.

Out of the bars and into the streets!

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.