Steve Ballmer (Steven Anthony Ballmer) Quotes

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

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• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Change
  • Where
  • Advancement

• There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Country
  • Girl

• As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Want
  • Everyone
  • Bubble

• I've been racketeered on.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Been

• My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Career
  • You
  • Vision

• You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • You
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Energy

• Orange bright,Like golden lamps in a green light.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Light
  • Green

• As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • History
  • Empowering

• For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Science

• At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

  

  Mark Frost
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • People
  • Money
  • Experience

• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  

  Jerry Weller

• I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • World
  • Power
  • American

• Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

  

  Steve Ballmer
  • Culture
  • Companies
  • Accountability