Gerry Schwartz Quotes
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
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Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone’s activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it’s all bliss, it’s not necessary for the people to suffer.
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Put simply, 'Interstellar' has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness.
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I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
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Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.
