Charlie Rose Quotes

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

Frankly, I have a lot of interests, and I am not all that wedded only to banking.

I've always been interested in many different things.

I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.

The PQ is diverse and vast. It's not monolithic.

I've got a wide variety of interests.

I'm interested in so many different things and art forms.

I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I'm interested both in science and in art.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

My main goal was to have something for everyone and not just one sound.

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.