Meg Whitman Quotes

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

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• Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Always
  • Vision

• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Balance
  • Financial

• There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Success
  • Die

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Fame

• There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Sometimes
  • Painting
  • Shadows

• 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.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Job
  • Success

• In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Politics
  • Battle

• 'I feel strong in challenges, believing that personal improvement and fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both negative and positive experiences.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Strong
  • Learning
  • Positive

• SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.

  

  Aeschylus

• One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Life
  • She

• The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

  

  Kurt Bills
  • Reality
  • Choices

• I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Family
  • Support

• Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Writing
  • Spirit
  • Focused

• When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Tired

• Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.

  

  Anna Held

• The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Music
  • Door

• Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Why
  • Rest

• Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

  

  Meg Whitman