Used To Be Quotes - Page 19

• Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

  Arie de Geus

  Organization, Essence, Environment

  "The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business". Book by Arie de Geus, 1999.

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• I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Opportunity, Singers, Remember

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• I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Memories, Years, Faithful

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.403

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• There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.

  Andrew Bird

  Real, Europe, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

  Sara Cox

  Mouths, Toes, Hips

  "Interrogation: Sara Cox". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Country, Creativity, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Beach, Venice, Apollo

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

  A. J. Liebling

  Shy, Sandwiches, Used

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• As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hard Work, Suffering, Doe

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• It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you.

  Matt Walsh

  Government, Want Something, Rights

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• Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

  David Lynch

  Dark, Balance, Used

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America.

  Alice Cooper

  America, Used, Said

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.

  Greg Smith

  Ideas, Example, Today

  "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" by Greg Smith, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2012.

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• In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.

  Dave Barry

  People, Today, Used

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• In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

  Roman Abramovich

  Country, Russia, Personal Opinions

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• The future isn't what is used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Used

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• I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Fashion, Book, Followers

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• I used to be a conservative.

  Jeb Bush

  Conservative, Used

  November 1, 2015.

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• Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

  Jim Kaat

  Unique, Ems, Used

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• I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Mark Schapiro, September 5, 2000.

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• I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Moving, Might, Unhappiness

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• The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

  Used

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• We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.

  Robin Williams

  Hunters, Used, Hunter Gatherers

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• 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

  Ed Robertson

  Guy, Dollars, Week

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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