Patrick Pichette Quotes

Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

Patrick Pichette

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Space

• I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • World
  • Myself
  • Best

• Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Women
  • Write
  • Weak

• I feel it's OK if not everybody agrees with me or likes me. The weird thing was it turned into people thinking I said we deserved it. I didn't say that - but Americans do need to look at their behavior in the world. It's easy to say, 'That was awful,' and hard to ask, 'Is there a way I can amend?'

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• 'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Art
  • Father
  • Rest

• Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Candy

• We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • America

• And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

  

  Beverly D'Angelo
  • Growth

• Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

  

  Jamie Dornan

• One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

  

  Alexander Hanson
  • Important

• People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• A lot of people think that we (The All-American Rejects) rule! I don't know what it is... it's like we stepped in something. It's called "awesome." And we can't walk it off... It's like shit mixed with glue. It's magic shit. Imagine the exact opposite of what normal shit snells like, and that is what our magic shit smells like!...So thank you everyone!

  

  Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
  • People
  • Think
  • Magic

• When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Education
  • Things

• Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

  

  Patrick Pichette
  • People
  • Google
  • Strategic