Bill McDermott Quotes

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• I love to perform live.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Live
  • I Love
  • Perform

• I put up some great numbers.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Numbers

• The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Just
  • Number
  • Parts

• I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Family
  • Think
  • Sister

• Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

  

  Alex Berenson
  • House
  • Flying

• I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, 'He did it right and he stood up for what is right.'

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Children
  • Wife

• I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  

  Carolina Herrera

• The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

  

  Mary Astell
  • People
  • Power

• When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco, because fresco is part of the wall. It's art, but it's decoration at the same time.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Domestic
  • Decoration
  • Integrated

• Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Great
  • Bold
  • Noble

• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Body
  • Human

• The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

  

  Mark Teixeira
  • World
  • American
  • History

• Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • God
  • Long
  • Fashion

• At SAP, we see a dream for a simpler world, for a simpler SAP, and for a simpler customer experience.

  

  Bill McDermott
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Customer