John T. Chambers Quotes
We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood.
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Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.
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You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go.
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We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.
