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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The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
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I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.
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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
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I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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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.
