Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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I'm sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about 'Kevin,' and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.
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All great success is preceded by failure.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
