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

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• 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

• 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

• If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • World
  • Kids

• If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • People
  • Parents
  • Childhood

• I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Home
  • Perspective

• Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Game

• Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Art
  • May

• Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Comedy
  • Golf

• Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• 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