Safra A. Catz Quotes

Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Strong
  • Feel
  • Enough

• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Ideas
  • Rules
  • Decisions

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Great
  • Think
  • Ideas

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • May
  • Many
  • Someday

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • May
  • Book
  • Science

• Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Popular

• I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Live
  • Bad

• Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Work
  • Community
  • Problem

• We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • Country
  • Health

• Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Single
  • Design
  • Flower

• What kind of man takes a live bomb across the seas in order to blow up other people? People who have mothers and lovers and children, just like him?Probably either a professional or a patriot, Alex thought. Or, worse, both.

  

  David Brin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • May
  • Ideas
  • Enough