Ricardo Semler Quotes

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

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• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Responsible

• The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • America
  • Small
  • Negative

• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Myself
  • Intellectual
  • Were

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Moving

• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Society
  • College

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Myself
  • Self
  • Laugh

• The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Need
  • Will

• If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Running
  • Play
  • Hockey

• I just want to compete and do what I love.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Love
  • Want
  • Just

• I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Different
  • Heart

• All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Real
  • Air

• I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Important

• I think you are going through so many 'firsts' as a teenager, and it's a charged time because of that. You don't have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Time
  • College

• Maybe I'll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Great
  • Promise

• People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

  

  Alison Owen
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Birthday
  • Wedding

• The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Desire

• A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Embrace

• Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • People
  • Management
  • Restless