Michael Gerber Quotes
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.
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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
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It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
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We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
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Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.