John T. Chambers Quotes
When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.
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My whole life is a vacation.
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One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.
