John Collison Quotes
You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
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I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
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A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.
