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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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
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I try to stay focused on my creativity.
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Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
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The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.
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I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
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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.
