John Gerzema Quotes
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
Quotes to Explore
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.
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I really believe that my family's infrequency of getting sick is due to our diet.
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I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming - and I do it four times a week.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
