Trip Hawkins Quotes
You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I always liked spy stories.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
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In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
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One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'
