Arie de Geus Quotes
Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
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None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.
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Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.
