Wernher von Braun Quotes

It is always impossible to expect things getting done in 90 days.

Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and has stimulated the hope of instant results.

We can't do the job in a half hour ... Perhaps we're misleading people.

'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

That's the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that's not going to happen.

I think this idea of a big break is a lie.

The way we like to make music is we'll announce a project when there are zero songs, and then we take that pressure and try to make an album really fast.

Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.