Sam Quotes

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

Mistakes are the doorway to discovery.

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.