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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • You
  • Sick
  • Milk

• In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fight

• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • People
  • Art
  • Write

• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Athlete

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Desire

• The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • World

• Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Up
  • Work

• I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Advice

• A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Up
  • Real

• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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