Majors Quotes - Page 34

• Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

  Bill Gates

  Organization, Looks, News

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love of the future and humanity….let’s wake up.

  Asher Roth

  Sex, Hate, Play

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• I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Baby, Trying, Jake

  "Banks Swings into Stardom with 'W.,' 'Zack and Miri'" by Anthony Breznican, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2008.

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• One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Thinking, Next

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• I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, College, Years

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• The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

  Ryne Sandberg

  Games, League, Uniforms

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• I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

  Tracey Emin

  Would Be, Exhibitions, My One And Only

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

  Robert Hunter

  Circles, Darkness, Lovers

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• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

  Bill Viola

  Wisdom, Mystical Experiences, Solitude

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• There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Stills, Plenty, Written

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• In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Block, Thinking, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.

  Van Jones

  New Orleans, Sea, Cities

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• To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

  Hans Blix

  Military, War, Climate

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• And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

  Alex Jones

  Media, Cities, Majority

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• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, African American, Racist

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• Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

  Carolyn Kizer

  Ideas, Brain, Vision

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• An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.

  Jeff Abbott

  Revenge, Heart, Responsibility

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• Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

  James Scott Bell

  Home, Character, Thinking

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• The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.

  Tim Farron

  Rights, People, Frustrated

  Tim Farron's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.newstatesman.com. October 7, 2014.

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• There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.

  Peter Cundill

  Panic, Reason

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• They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions.

  Peter Cundill

  House, Research, Investment

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• The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

  Noam Chomsky

  Fate, Decision, Influence

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• Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Wise, Differences, Use

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.10, Jaico Publishing House

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• Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

  Jimmy Fallon

  People, President, Speech

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