James G. Stavridis Quotes

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
  • Believe
  • Business
  • History

• Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Travel
  • Exercise
  • Shoes

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Home
  • Night
  • Fight

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Back
  • Go

• It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Up
  • Character
  • Success

• I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Push

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

  

  George J. Mitchell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Parents

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • War
  • Give
  • Nobody

• Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • People

• There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Dance

• Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

  

  James G. Stavridis
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  • Together