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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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.
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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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Architects have always hoped to find a way to skip that stage between design and finished building.
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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
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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.
