David Livermore Quotes
Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
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As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.
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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
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The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.
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I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.
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In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.
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Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.
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I just spent the last 8 months working on the second edition of 'Mastering Bitcoin,' and I couldn't even scratch the surface of all the innovation that is happening in BTC.
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As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
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Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!
