Jorge Lemann Quotes

#1. Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#2. I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

Scott Rolen

#3. You can't write something to please someone.

Sean Durkin

#4. It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#5. Do you know, Princess," said I with a shade of annoyance, "that one should never spurn a repentant sinner, for out of sheer desperation he may become twice as sinful ...

Mikhail Lermontov

#6. Precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

Tim O'Brien

#7. 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

#8. Some mommies and daddies find it hard to accept
Kids who are different to the normal set.

Christina Engela

#9. If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn't one.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

Daniel Pennac

#11. Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

John Maeda

#12. Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Rob Lowe

#13. Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

Aaron Rodgers

#14. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

Maurice De Vlaminck

#15. I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#16. I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Duncan Jones

#17. Caring for someone that doesn't care for you doesn't get you any where, take all the love and care you have for them and give it to someone that actually cares about you, but until you find that person ... invest it in yourself.

Jaz Mehat

#18. Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Julianna Baggott

#19. In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#20. I try to forget you more often than not but somehow my mind wanders to places my heart feels are oh so very true.

Nikki Rowe