John Liu Quotes

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Money
  • Survive

• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Actor
  • Scripts
  • Prepare

• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Dare
  • Totally

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Free
  • Football

• I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • World
  • Love
  • Feeling

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Seldom

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr.

  

  David Garrow
  • Moral
  • King

• I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Life
  • Pool

• Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • Giving

• The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

  

  John Liu
  • People