Ricardo Semler Quotes

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

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• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
  • Smart
  • Relationships

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Real
  • Wish

• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Player
  • Tennis

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

• I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Learn
  • Interest

• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Public
  • Performing
  • Started

• It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Celebrity
  • Go
  • Zero

• I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Carbon

• I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.

  

  Jeff Sessions

• Patriotism ruins history.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• I've started to really nurture a bedtime routine, which, for me, starts with caffeine-free tea, usually rooibos or jasmine tea, something soothing, very fragrant, just a reminder to get back to your senses.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Free
  • Tea

• For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• I'm never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I'm very visual. I have a catalog in my head of things I already own, so it's easy to shop and I always know exactly what I'm looking for.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • People
  • Good
  • Organization

• If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • People
  • Capable