John T. Chambers Quotes
What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
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I can say that I don't compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.
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If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
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In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
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Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
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I'd like to die with my boots on.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.
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The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.
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When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.
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I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!
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Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.
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What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level.
