Maureen Chiquet Quotes
A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.
Quotes to Explore
-
In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
-
I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
-
There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
-
I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
-
In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
-
We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
-
When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
-
Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
-
I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
-
I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
-
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
-
I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
-
In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
-
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
-
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
-
With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.
-
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
-
The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.
-
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
-
By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.
-
A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.
