John L. Flannery Quotes
The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.
Quotes to Explore
-
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
-
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
-
What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
-
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
-
The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
-
My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
-
I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
-
I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
-
I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
-
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
-
For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
-
I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
-
It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
-
There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
-
I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
-
I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
-
A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
-
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
-
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
-
With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.
-
Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
-
I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
-
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
-
The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.
