Intersections Quotes - Page 2

• The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Ipads

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Might, Knots

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 08, 2011

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• Our truth is the intersection of independent lies

  Richard Levins

  Lying, Independent, Truth Is

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• Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

  Sara Gran

  Lying, Ignored, Forget

  Sara Gran (2011). “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Lying, War

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• The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.

  Robert Jeffress

  Jesus, Holiness, Christ

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Numbers, Discipline

  Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press

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• When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosopher, Worthy, Distinguished

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.146, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

  Constantine Manos

  Real, Expression, People

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• Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

  Jack Dorsey

  People, Looks, Revolution

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• If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Emotional, Ideas, Space

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

  Frederick Buechner

  Lying, Joy, Needs

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• I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Rational, Unconscious

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

  Scott Weiss

  Passion, People, Great People

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• No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Decision, Finding Yourself

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• Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Land, Organization

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• I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

  Fred Wilson

  Identity, Reputation

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• The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Drama, Energy, Way

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• I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Technology, Innovation

  "Steve Jobs’s Dying Realization About Biology and Technology" by Luke Timmerman, www.xconomy.com. December 5, 2011.

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• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.

  Suzy Welch

  Destiny, Careers, People

  "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". "Knowledge@Wharton show", knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.

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• Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

  Gail Jones

  World, Routes

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• Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

  Stacy Schiff

  Clever, Years, Dangerous

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• I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

  Walter Isaacson

  Technology, Thinking, Innovation

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

  Clayton Christensen

  Ideas, People, Mets

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