Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

One goal for Silicon Valley must be to redouble our collective efforts to make sure people of all backgrounds are aware of opportunities in tech.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

Recitation: by Male by Female

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PeopleOpportunitiesGoalValley

For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

Jill Scott

JobGoSaySeriouslyOverwhelmed

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

Jerry Moran

OpportunityInnovationBestGrow

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

John Kasich

LifeFutureQualityWorldBetter

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

John Locke

InspirationalPathTimePeopleSame

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.

John Shelton Reed

PeopleBlackHeritageI CanWant

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Skitch Henderson

BecomeMarketAlmostGlut

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

WorkIntelligencePastReadingYou

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

Tommy Mottola

MeLittle ThingsSparkSomeoneLook

Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him.

Rod Carew

BestMeGameDoingBackManager

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Ruby Wax

FriendsYouMakeSome

I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.

Mickey Drexler

FunMeFashionRememberWantRun

When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.

Mike Krieger

YouStudentWayProjectOverFinish

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