John Mackey Quotes
The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
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I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.
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Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.
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The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
