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Steve Jobs Quotes about Inspiring

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspire

"What Higher Education Can Learn From Steve Jobs" byBrian Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Inspiring, Mean, Thinking

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Inspiring, Business, Work

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

"Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

"The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

The journey is the reward

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.53, Prabhat Prakashan

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Memorable

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Inspiring, Memorable, Artist

Playboy Interview, genius.com.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

"The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Best Job

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.71, Prabhat Prakashan

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Inspiring, People, Perspective

"Steve Jobs: The next insanely great thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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.

Inspiring, Morning, Heart

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Inspiring, Art, Design

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

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

Inspiring, Thinking, People

We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

"Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

"The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Inspiring, Beautiful, Country

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Inspiring, Thinking, Best Job

That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

Inspiring, Thinking, Two

Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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