Ricardo Semler Quotes
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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Whatever exists, he the judge said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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I don't do radio or TV. I do people.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
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If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
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The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
