Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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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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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.
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Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.
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After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
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I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.