Ymre Stiekema Quotes

Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.

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• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
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• One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.

  

  Bill Foster
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• I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.

  

  Bill Kristol
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• Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
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• Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

  

  Lillian Smith
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• My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

  

  Bryan Cranston
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• Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
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