David Livermore Quotes
Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Early numbers are always wrong.
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I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
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Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.
