John Gourley Quotes

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

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• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fire

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Never
  • Meditation

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Pretty

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• I just think political correctness is crap.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Just

• I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Think
  • Government
  • Lies

• I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Big
  • Ups And Downs
  • Moody

• I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Power
  • Best

• I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Best
  • Requires

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Age
  • Today

• In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Country

• We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • People
  • Different
  • Live