Veronica Roth Quotes

I made a cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile struggle.

It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

I didn't put Priest down. He was just trying to get out. His deeds weren't noble ones, but he was making money, and he had intelligence. And he did survive. I mean, all this was reality.

I'm pragmatic.

You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.

In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

Everyone's out there trying to take what's mine, and they're going to have to fight me for it.

I'm a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense.

I exist because I am expendable. In all honesty, it's because if I get hurt, I can be replaced.

I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.

Government officials and citizens care about many causes - and they all require resources. For example, I am personally passionate about ending the human trafficking that still occurs within our borders.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

I believe in anything that works.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).