Inspiring Quotes - Page 30

• Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

  David Maister

  Determined, Professionalism, Consequence

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• His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Moral Leadership, Peaceful

  Statement on the death of Vaclav Havel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2011.

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• Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

  Marie Clay

  Teaching, Reading, Literacy

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• It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.

  John O'Callaghan

  Success, Business, Views

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• Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

  Bobbi Brown

  Graduation, Jobs, Smart

  "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.

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• For in Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged. And it is my firm belief that the relationship between the United States and India - bound by our shared interests and values - will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century. This is the partnership I have come here to build. This is the vision that our nations can realise together.

  Barack Obama

  Vision, Together, India

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• America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Odds, America

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• My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

  Barack Obama

  Advice, Going Away, Pieces

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• And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Cutting, Thinking

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Mistake

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Easier

  "Shark musings". Sales & Marketing Management Interview, salesandmarketing.com. March 20, 2014.

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• Character + Chance = Success

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Character, Chance

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Education, Children, Book

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• Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Winning, Acting, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

  Bell Hooks

  Reality, Roots, Imagination

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.110, Routledge

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• It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.

  Christian Louboutin

  Graduation, Dream, Age

  "Christian Louboutin Addresses FIT Graduates". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 23, 2014.

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• If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Party, Leader, Fuel

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• Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

  Christine Lagarde

  Years, Progress, Unions

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• For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

  Jack Ma

  Important, Economic, Ecommerce

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• What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

  Marissa Mayer

  Should Have, Data, Economic

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• I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

  Wallace Shawn

  Mothers Day, Believe, People

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• We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

  Paul Polman

  Lenses, Economic, Gender

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• Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

  Paul Kagame

  Technology, Keys, Economic

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• If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, Investing, Economic

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