Darren Walker Quotes
Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
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I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
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Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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Business is business. It’s never personal. It can be cruel, it can be ruthless, but it is never personal.
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Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that’s when the magic happens.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
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Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.
