Ginni Rometty Quotes

I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization.

Ginni Rometty

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InnovationThinkIndustryCycleTech

Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you're like, 'What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?'

Jim James

TimeOceanThinkPictureYouLook

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Meg Rosoff

LifeMindMeSisterWritingShort

Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.

John McAfee

RunCaptainMorePirateLinesAlong

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

Shirley MacLaine

TogetherMeThinkPotentialImpact

Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.

Rozonda Thomas

BeautyWomenBeautifulPeopleMask

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

Michio Kaku

ChildCoolScientist

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

Michael Leunig

GoodWisdomExperienceCreativity

Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... it's what I feel like.

Josie Loren

PeopleMeLookingFeelSkinSee

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Jonah Goldberg

PerspectiveBookEveryoneSomeBit

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

Jonathan Dimbleby

FatherFutureDayMeChampionHorse

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

AloneCreativityChildhoodChildYou

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Allan Carr

AttitudePerformanceYouLoseWrong

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