Ed Bastian (Edward H. Bastian) Quotes

You can't have costs ahead of your unit revenues. What I wake up at night worrying about is that our proposals are not aggressive enough.

Ed Bastian

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• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Reality
  • Advice
  • Young

• Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Country
  • Trying

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Success
  • Achieve

• When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Think

• I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Dogs
  • Early
  • Riser

• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Business
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• All I had to do was do it.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis

• I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Different
  • Mind

• What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Way
  • Situation
  • Villain

• Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Age
  • Care
  • Body

• It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Girl
  • Have
  • Met

• I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • School
  • Love
  • She

• Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • She
  • Girl
  • Hair

• Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Violence

• When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Mother
  • Choices
  • Needs

• Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Cost
  • Rings
  • Bucks

• The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Life
  • Time
  • Soul

• You can't have costs ahead of your unit revenues. What I wake up at night worrying about is that our proposals are not aggressive enough.

  

  Ed Bastian
  • Cost
  • Proposal
  • Revenues