#cat

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice. ↗

— Stan Getz

#dedicated #distractions #emerson #full #had

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#being #companies #company #cultures #dealing

There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#always #another #cannot #learn #learned

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#country #dollar #duty #fact #first

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#becoming #cerebral #computer #disabled #does

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#academics #athletes #both #caricatures #expert

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#communicating #creation #god #him #his

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#above #common #educations #every #every man

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#big #certainly #compelling #could #delicious

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic