John T. Chambers Quotes

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

John T. Chambers

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A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

Jesmyn Ward

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My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.

Jeff Giles

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I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

Mia Hamm

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It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

Solange Knowles

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Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

Ronnie Wood

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I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn't be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I'm not so sure he was.

Rory Stewart

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Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

Jonathan Haidt

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When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

Johnny Mathis

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The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

Douglas Brunt

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I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice.

Dean Geyer

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Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.

Chris Pine

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I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

Alison Gopnik

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