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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I try to keep an even keel.
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I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!
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Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
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I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
