Default Quotes

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Portability should be the default.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Life either happens by design or default, you choose.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

We either live with intention or exist by default.

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

Pessimism is my default setting.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.