We feel like we're starting from scratch.
JEFFREY EISENBERG We feel like we're starting from scratch. The only thing we know is that we don't know anything.
JEFFREY EISENBERG There's an epidemic going on throughout the country, and New York seems to be the hotbed.
JEFFREY EISENBERG One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
DEBORAH EISENBERG To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
DEBORAH EISENBERG For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
DEBORAH EISENBERG We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk...
DEBORAH EISENBERG It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided...
DEBORAH EISENBERG The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
DEBORAH EISENBERG I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I would like to never ever think about any political issues.
DEBORAH EISENBERG The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Fiction is a report from the interior.
DEBORAH EISENBERG For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
LARRY EISENBERG If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
JESSE EISENBERG The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug...
DEBORAH EISENBERG When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving...
JESSE EISENBERG I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started tr...
JESSE EISENBERG The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't s...
JESSE EISENBERG I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specifi...
JESSE EISENBERG It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my...
DEBORAH EISENBERG And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms ...
JESSE EISENBERG I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
JESSE EISENBERG Reviews are critical [to online success]. Most sites do a pretty poor job of giving enough informati...
BRYAN EISENBERG Visual Sciences has been acting in stealth mode for the past three years, and they by far have the m...
BRYAN EISENBERG For a product that just launched I'm extremely impressed. Tying it into the analysis, that's the key...
BRYAN EISENBERG There's really something powerful to this. It's cheaper to get customers to generate media than it i...
BRYAN EISENBERG There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of cou...
JESSE EISENBERG When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to i...
JESSE EISENBERG For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
LARRY EISENBERG For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
LARRY EISENBERG If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's...
JESSE EISENBERG People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to g...
JESSE EISENBERG It is abundantly clear that UCI breached its ethical obligations to their patients.
LARRY EISENBERG I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on...
JESSE EISENBERG Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
JESSE EISENBERG I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
JESSE EISENBERG As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authentic...
JESSE EISENBERG Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies ...
JESSE EISENBERG Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expec...
DAVID EISENBERG Hopefully next year there will be over 100 volunteers helping our community - we all owe our service...
DANA EISENBERG As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really...
JESSE EISENBERG For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
JESSE EISENBERG The truth is in the rhythm.
SETH EISENBERG You can find whatever you're looking for, so decide what you're looking for.
SETH EISENBERG As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike...
JESSE EISENBERG Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, ... In my per...
DAVID EISENBERG The name change was orchestrated in order to appeal to many cultures, besides just Indian, which was...
DANA EISENBERG The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene yo...
JESSE EISENBERG Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thoug...
JESSE EISENBERG I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that mayb...
JESSE EISENBERG The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.
JESSE EISENBERG SBR participated in both 19th Ward House tours as well as in the 19th Ward Community Center - we hel...
DANA EISENBERG When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the da...
JESSE EISENBERG I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both bru...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call yo...
JESSE EISENBERG I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way...
DEBORAH EISENBERG Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has ...
JESSE EISENBERG The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, bec...
JESSE EISENBERG [Actually, Eisenberg wants to be a doctor or lawyer — trite, sure, but refreshingly absent the love...
HALLIE EISENBERG [Actually, Eisenberg wants to be a doctor or lawyer -- trite, sure, but refreshingly absent the love...
HALLIE EISENBERG There was a long time where I couldn't move two feet without someone asking me about it, ... It was ...
HALLIE EISENBERG What? What is this? ... My sister and I wrote a little play for my parents. How is this out there?
HALLIE EISENBERG These few factors will keep most people out of trouble and allow them to look at many exciting oppor...
HARRY EISENBERG If they have not issued a financial statement, that's a company to stay away from. You can't do any ...
HARRY EISENBERG Any area where institutions are not involved is great for individuals. When the institutions aren't ...
HARRY EISENBERG If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wou...
HARRY EISENBERG I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tu...
JESSE EISENBERG It felt great to hit the game-winner. We were knocking on the door the entire game. We didn't play w...
LIZ EISENBERG It's tough (to play two double overtime games in three days). We're playing a system that requires a...
LIZ EISENBERG They're very dangerous and they have a good front line. We just didn't test their back line.
LIZ EISENBERG Approximately 50 cases will be consolidated in this action. The common facts that link the cases inc...
LARRY EISENBERG Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons thei...
JEFFREY KLUGER I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making the...
JEFFREY KLUGER The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destro...
JEFFREY SACHS Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and o...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN Great people have great values and great ethics.
JEFFREY GITOMER The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise a...
JEFFREY SACHS There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
JEFFREY GITOMER At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, ...
JEFFREY GITOMER What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestr...
JEFFREY KLUGER The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your st...
JEFFREY GITOMER I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ...
JEFFREY SKOLL Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p...
JEFFREY GITOMER The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do i...
JEFFREY SACHS I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
JEFFREY DONOVAN What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l...
JEFFREY DONOVAN I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around ...
JEFFREY GITOMER The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
JEFFREY TATE Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ...
JEFFREY SATINOVER We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We hav...
JEFFREY SACHS Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that ...
JEFFREY KLUGER The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because bo...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ...
JEFFREY GITOMER Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no...
JEFFREY MICHAEL Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you e...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning...
JEFFREY ARCHER It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in fr...
JEFFREY BELL Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on r...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus...
JEFFREY KOTTLER Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY Good design can't fix broken business models.
JEFFREY VEEN Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
FRANCIS JEFFREY I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're s...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakne...
JEFFREY KLUGER I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambie...
JEFFREY TATE Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as A...
JEFFREY KLUGER We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
JEFFREY GITOMER As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a l...
JEFFREY KLUGER In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acou...
JEFFREY TATE It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daugh...
JEFFREY KLUGER The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than wh...
JEFFREY KLUGER The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the co...
JEFFREY CHIESA A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it conscio...
JEFFREY KLUGER My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I h...
JEFFREY GITOMER Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all i...
JEFFREY GITOMER What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagi...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to l...
JEFFREY KLUGER I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outs...
JEFFREY WRIGHT In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there i...
JEFFREY SACHS The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and w...
JEFFREY GITOMER In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.
JEFFREY GITOMER There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and stri...
JEFFREY GITOMER There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion ...
JEFFREY GITOMER Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich wou...
JEFFREY KLUGER I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps yo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to e...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
JEFFREY KLUGER The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
FRANCIS JEFFREY It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedo...
BELINDA JEFFREY As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, me...
JEFFREY KLUGER Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.
JEFFREY MCDANIEL We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are p...
JEFFREY DEITCH Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Re...
JEFFREY SKOLL We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believe...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both th...
JEFFREY KLUGER I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti...
JEFFREY ARCHER The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES And so now, having been born, I'm going to rewind the film, so that my pink blanket flies off, my cr...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; an...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the succes...
JEFFREY GITOMER Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served u...
JEFFREY KLUGER Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use...
JEFFREY KLUGER Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited tr...
JEFFREY KLUGER There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an...
JEFFREY KLUGER Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort o...
JEFFREY KLUGER All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neuroch...
JEFFREY KLUGER It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what ...
JEFFREY KLUGER Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an...
JEFFREY KLUGER I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This migh...
JEFFREY TATE Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome...
JEFFREY BELL Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is t...
JEFFREY TOOBIN In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up ...
JEFFREY SACHS I've been in three sort of... I mean, I'd say they're groundbreaking series, if only bec...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make ...
JEFFREY KLUGER I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor...
JEFFREY BROWN Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be ...
JEFFREY KLUGER Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town s...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where t...
JEFFREY KLUGER I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle,...
JEFFREY TATE I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater hero...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it....
JEFFREY WRIGHT If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding...
JEFFREY JONES