Colin Cotterill Quotes
“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I'm a real optimist.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
