John T. Chambers Quotes

Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.

John T. Chambers

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Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.

Michael Ignatieff

TogetherViolenceTyrannyReligions

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

Stormzy

IdeasCrazyMadSometimesPossible

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ManWindKnowPlansAimRight

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

PastManIdeasDeepEndSee

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

Jason Kidd

FreeLookPlayOutGotOptions

Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.

Common

DaughterPoliticsInfluenceLawyer

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

Chuck Close

ColorsColorOilPiecesBiggerGet

Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.

Suze Orman

GoodGood TimesFriendsCreditYou

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

Susanna Kearsley

CharacterBestWordsDownPageWay

I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.

Noel Wells

BirthdayGoodEffortParentsPeople

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

Gustavo Dudamel

CommunityBuildingBetterYou

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

Fred Frith

PoliticsWinPerceptionThinkResult

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