Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'
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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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I can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.
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If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.
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I went a few times, but I felt there was no way that any therapist could understand my particular torment and also felt in some respects they were sicker than I was.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'
