Jorge Paulo Lemann Quotes

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

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TimeBestPeopleMeShortLearn

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

John Grogan

BestWifeMeThoughtDecisionsLong

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

Jehane Noujaim

FatherMotherTravelThinkAmerican

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

John M. McHugh

PeopleAmericaConnectionPersonal

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Romola Garai

WomenTodayAestheticYou1950sHad

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Mary Astell

GoodBestOpinionThinkBodyWay

During the week it isn't always easy to sit down together and I am usually in a rush to get everyone off to school. A bowl of cereal and milk with fruit is perfect because it's quick and easy. I like to mix it up on the weekends when we can all relax in our pajamas.

Monica Potter

TogetherSchoolI AmRelaxFruit

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Donna Mills

MindDoingPlanLensKnowAlways

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

Chili Davis

GameThinkIndividualPlayingStill

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Chuck Palahniuk

WorkGoodHomeMyselfFeel Good

In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

DepressionWarSlaveryAmericaYou

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

LifeLoveYouBackLove LifeWill

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

William Penn

PowerMenTreesWindsFortuneMost

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