Safra A. Catz Quotes
I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
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I have a very difficult time describing my music.
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I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.
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Goonies are good enough, good enough for me
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I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.
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I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
