Ricardo Semler Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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La mémoire de la plupart des hommes est un cimetière abandonné, où gisent sans honneurs des morts qu'ils ont cessé de chérir.
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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
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Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget all the stupid things I say as soon as I’ve finished saying them.
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The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.
