James C. Collins Quotes
Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going - for where you are going will almost certainly changeJames C. Collins
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln -
When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
Adam Lambert -
I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
Imogen Cunningham
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.
Barry McGee -
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all… This is the dream of every Arab.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
'Don’t lie,' he said. 'That’s my job.'
M. K. Hobson -
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
Warren Farrell
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If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.
Jack McDevitt -
A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
Larry McMurtry -
I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm coolI didn't make it surely, playin' by the rulesI've come of heart, baby, but now I'm fineI'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the lineI've come of heart, baby, but that's OK'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way.
Marvin Gaye -
I believe that every employee, from the CEO suite to the factory floor, contributes to a business’ success, so everybody should share in the rewards – especially those putting in long hours for little pay.
Hillary Clinton -
There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
Anthony Powell -
I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier.
Brendan Fletcher
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It's very rare that I get really upset about something my assistants have done.
Brad Goreski -
This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.
John Osborne -
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.
Marquis de Condorcet -
Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going - for where you are going will almost certainly change
James C. Collins