Ricardo Semler Quotes
No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well.
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People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
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I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
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I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.
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It's really odd to be up close to an icon like Bruce Willis. You're used to seeing him on a screen, 50 feet tall. To think, 'Hmm, I'm taller than you are' is just weird.
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I'm 29 years old and, sure, I'm looking to find a wife.
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You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.
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The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
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If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
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No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
