John T. Chambers Quotes
Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
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Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.
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Language is a sense, like touch. (p. 271)
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Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.
