John Quelch Quotes
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
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I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
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Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.
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I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
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President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
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Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.
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Personal brand equity erodes much faster than corporate brand equity.
