Mark V. Hurd Quotes
Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
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I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
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We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
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Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.
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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
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The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.
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When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.
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My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.
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The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.
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I am not Dwight Schrute, okay? I played a character for 200 episodes, and it was an awesome character, and he was a beet farmer. That doesn’t mean you should hand me beets or make beet jokes every time I go into Starbucks and ask if they have like a beet latte or something like that.
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The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
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I don't necessarily see my not wearing makeup as a social comment or that it's because I work in a female-dominated industry.
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Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.
