John Gerzema Quotes

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

John Gerzema

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In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business.

Michael Dirda

FamilyBusinessChildrenWriteRice

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Tony Campolo

WomanManMedicalChildDoingSame

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

Tom Hardy

DayGratefulFunAmazingCoolEnd

First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.

Rob Walton

MindFirstRightContractSign

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Roddy Doyle

Growing UpYouGrowingNeverWrite

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.

Ruth Reichl

LifeGoodFoodYouKnowNeed

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

Mary-Louise Parker

SoupFeelMoreNeverKidsBowl

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Joichi Ito

PowerCreativityDownMoreForce

It's a great gift in my throat. When you have a gift, you think about the giver. Who gave this to me? And this takes you to a spiritual sense of God. That has captivated me all through my life, serving that lucky gift.

Art Garfunkel

LifeGodGreatSpiritualMeGift

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

Bruce McCulloch

LoveDayFunBad DayThinkComedy

Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.

Brian Tyree Henry

BeautifulEyesFeelYouSayBelief

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Anne Robinson

TimeGoingJustNecessaryMarry

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