John T. Chambers Quotes
A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
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Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.
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I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.
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It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
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Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
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Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.
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A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
