Valleys Quotes - Page 13

• Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

  Ben Stein

  Running, Real, Repetitive

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• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Rivers, San Francisco, Hudson River

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• The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Self, Class

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.52, Vintage

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• Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.

  Peter Thiel

  Dream, World, May

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• In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.

  John Loengard

  Eye, Lakes, Expression

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• The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Silence, Darkness

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.124, 谷月社

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• One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.

  Charles L. Allen

  Husband, Dark, Love Is

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• There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.

  Arthur Machen

  Heart, Perfect, Stories

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• Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Half, Littles

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment. As a wife, anything that my husband is passionate about and helps to support. As a community member, anything that supports the Vail Valley, the place that I call home. As a friend of the founder and true believer in their mission, an organization called First Descents. They provide adventure camps to young adults and adults with cancer or who have survived cancer.

  Trista Sutter

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Wall, Three Things, Pillars

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Green, Walking

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• Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and stories. Girls on Ice encouraged a new kind of curiosity in me about things I would have thought boring before. Now I'm considering to pursue Geology after high school. Girls on Ice opened a door to new thoughts and interests for me to consider for my future.

  Chloe Smith

  Girl, School, Doors

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• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sleep, Cities, Elephants

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• I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.

  Bent Saether

  Couple, Beer, Talking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Nsa, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

  Astra Taylor

  Class, Firsts, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Reading, Rivers, Village

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  Edmund Hillary

  Interesting, Challenges, World

  Foreword to "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations" by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes, 2000.

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• Banks don't want certain asset classes, and that's created opportunities for private equity, hedge funds, Silicon Valley. In this case I think he was referring to some of the European banks shedding assets, and the big buyers are probably not going to be big American banks. Someone like Blackstone may have a very good chance to buy those assets, leverage them, borrow up a little bit, and do something good there.

  Jamie Dimon

  Opportunity, Thinking, Class

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• We use technology to make it cheaper, better, and faster for the client. And then if you have the most flow, you can win. Now, having said that, Silicon Valley wants to take on this business. They think they see an opening.

  Jamie Dimon

  Winning, Technology, Thinking

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Successful, Thinking, Apples

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Unique, Cities, Berlin

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.

  Guy Branum

  Pride, Gay, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

  Augustus William Hare

  Inspirational, Height, Mist

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.185

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