Kevin P. Ryan Quotes
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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Ultimately, it's not our responsibility to turn Afghanistan into a 21st-century, vibrant, economic, liberal democracy with a little L. Our responsibility is to keep Americans safe, to make sure we don't have a failed state in a region. It's not our responsibility to reconstruct Afghanistan.
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No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
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Yes, I think I am a realist. Because I make what I see. It's only the problem of seeing it. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space - then you can make it, and tout de suite you're a realist. The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it.
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Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.
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To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.
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The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
