Maureen Chiquet Quotes

A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.

Maureen Chiquet

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• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Decision
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Brand

• 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.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Political
  • Pressure

• 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.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Love
  • Book
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• 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?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Looking
  • Wait

• 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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Food

• The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.

  

  Oliver North
  • Up
  • Today
  • Phones

• Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Myself
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • I Believe

• Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Days

• 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.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Present
  • Person

• In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • 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.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Night
  • Star

• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  

  Alice Meynell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Nature

• Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

  

  James Montgomery
  • Hope

• I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Society
  • Law
  • Deep

• I tore my abdomen. That ended my football career, which was what I wanted to do my entire life, and when that was over, I pretty much looked to just about anything, but nothing really caught my interest.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Career

• A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.

  

  Maureen Chiquet