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Quote by Lou Gerstner

“I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.”

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Lou Gerstner, born on March 1, 1942, is a prominent figure in the business world. He has held several key positions throughout his career and achieved significant accomplishments in various industries. more

“So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.”

Way Mean Feelings Certain Lost Parent Hell Generations Unique Universal Yeah

Author:Zach Braff

“It's hard for me not to be extraordinarily cute. I had to fight it.”

Hard Fighting Cute

Author:Zach Braff

“Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.”

World Giving Art Important Whole Political Social Results Depends Essentials Organization Practicals Whole World Administration Statistics Application

Author:Florence Nightingale

“Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.”

Process Conclusion

Author:Steven Novella

“Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.”

Ifs Men Mind Running Path Track Destination Portions Unlimited

Author:Karl von Frisch

“The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.”

Firsts Found Tree Sweet First Time Surprise Forests Luxury Wilderness Greedy Exceed Relish Banquets

Author:Washington Irving

“If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.”

Ifs Writing Long Enough Born Chance Hooked Good Chance

Author:Peter Meinke

“So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.”

Men Writing Use Reading Audience Laughter Mark Studios Cards Good Writing Exclamation Exclamation Marks

Author:Miles Kington

“...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Hard Problem Felt Brain Week Teaching First Time Afternoon Friday Cables Jumpers Friday Afternoon

Author:Stephen King

“...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Sometimes Hard Pieces Position Goes On Sitting Good Work Stopping Doing Good Bad Ideas Shovels

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

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