Owain Yeoman Quotes
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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Bullies always have another target.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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My mom and I are very close.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
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Eventually, I developed compartment syndrome in my calf and had to get surgery. I run three to five days a week now, mixed in with walking and other things. I want to run just because I enjoy it.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
