Top 37 Galvin Quotes
#1. Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty
#2. You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.
Christopher Galvin
#3. It's better than the Green Line," Galvin said with a
Joseph Finder
#4. The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.
Christopher Galvin
#5. I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.
Bob Galvin
#7. While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.
Christopher Galvin
#8. And for a minute, maybe longer ... everything that threatens us, threatens to save us.
James Galvin
#9. They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.
David Lange
#10. Once people have tried to do something they think is uniquely innovative and it doesn't work, they're actually now more valuable because they know what not to try the next time, or what to try differently.
Christopher Galvin
#11. The Meadow ... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here ... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in.
James Galvin
#12. What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.
Christopher Galvin
#13. There is nothing more magical than love. Nothing.
Ymatruz
#14. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
Bob Galvin
#16. Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.
James Geary
#17. A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
Watchman Nee
#18. On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' I'll get up about 5:30 A.M .and go to Malibu and surf. There's something very therapeutic and healing about it.
Austin Nichols
#19. When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.
Christopher Galvin
#20. If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.
Joseph Bruchac
#21. Snow. Sun. Sandstone. Sky. He was doing what he liked and knew. It was now. And this now had no pressure, just permission. - James Galvin
Scott Jurek
#22. For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
Anthony Weiner
#23. I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.
Christopher Galvin
#24. This was a brainchild of mine, to build a shop where you could walk up to everything and didn't feel like you had to keep your hands off. I wanted a shop that you could walk into and feel comfortable in, and I wanted women to feel comfortable in the shop as well.
Roger Meddows Taylor
#25. The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.
Christopher Galvin
#26. If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work ...
Christopher Galvin
#27. If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.
James Galvin
#28. Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.
Sandra Bullock
#29. Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."
Christopher Galvin
#30. As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
Bernard Goldberg
#31. From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball.
Pud Galvin
#32. I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
Dana Brunetti
#33. The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.
James Galvin
#34. My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.
Pud Galvin
#36. Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]
George Herbert
#37. I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.
Bob Galvin
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