Jim Breyer Quotes
I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.Jim Breyer
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
Patrick Lencioni -
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
Saint Basil -
I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
Jack Kelley -
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
Kate Winslet -
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann
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I was tested against the best.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
Daddy Yankee -
True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
Zola Jesus -
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken -
It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
Mal Peet -
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Hannah Cowley
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
Adam Ferrara -
Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
Yael Grobglas -
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.
Abraham Verghese -
I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
Zach Galifianakis
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Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Anne Wilson Schaef -
I used to impersonate people a lot when I was very young. But the good Lord gives us teachers to make fun of first. And then, of course, by college, I eventually graduated to a more sophisticated kind of comedy more people were familiar with.
James Adomian -
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
John Hodgman -
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
Meg Whitman -
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Dalai Lama -
I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.
Jim Breyer