John Gerzema Quotes

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

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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.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• 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.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Look
  • Fans

• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• 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.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Think
  • Find
  • Waves

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Real
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Her

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• Europe is kind of fragmented. Africa is nascent; we've made a few investments, including four in Egypt. I visit 50-60 cities and 20-25 countries a year. The intent is to be a global fund, which takes time and prioritization.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Time

• IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Ideas

• That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Dark

• The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • Work
  • Long
  • Science

• Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

  

  John Gerzema
  • Good
  • Work
  • Kindness