Zero Quotes - Page 5

• My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

  Jose Mourinho

  Arrogant, Trophies, Frank

  "Mourinho backs England's cause" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Sight, Hiv, Three

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• With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Energy, Goes On

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Arbitrary, Lines, Want

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.67, Penguin

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• Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

  Cameron Sinclair

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Space, Depth

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• A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

  George Gilder

  Yield, Order, Principles

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• Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

  Bob Proctor

  Ideas, Giving, Ability

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• Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

  David Miliband

  Agriculture, Atmosphere, Needs

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• Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

  Sarah Palin

  Pain, Real, Believe

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

  Jack White

  Rain, Mean, Texas

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• Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero... If we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.

  Chris Rapley

  Believe, Issues, Views

  "Earth is too crowded for Utopia". news.bbc.co.uk. January 6, 2006.

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• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
  all of his works are zero.
  When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
  then the work of the Teacher is over.

  Kabir

  Teacher, Long, Worry

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential.

  Ilchi Lee

  Art, Block, Creativity

  Ilchi Lee (2007). “Principles of Brain Management: A Practical Approach to Making the Most of Your Brain”, p.58, BEST Life Media

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• There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Eternity, Mortality, Ultimate

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Running, Mean, Blue

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• There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

  Lancelot Hogben

  India, Revolutionary, Hinduism

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• Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don't believe in that either.

  Deepika Padukone

  Believe, Cutting, Size

  "Padukone: 'Size zero doesn't suit Indians'" by Will Astbury, www.digitalspy.com. March 8, 2010.

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• It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

  Jack Lemmon

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.

  Lily Collins

  Past, June, Gone

  "Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Ive been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what wont. I can tell instantly if its a hero or a zero.

  Lori Greiner

  Hero, Long, Feels

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• I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.

  Kelly Rowland

  Simple, Work Out, Naked

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• I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

  Shailene Woodley

  Girl, Expectations, World

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• I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

  Jerry Hall

  Interest, Interest In Politics

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• Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

  Billy Corgan

  Identity, Shirts, Stills

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