Top 100 Quotes About Schmidt
#1. My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks exactly like my grandma, only my girl older.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
James Lee Schmidt
#2. I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.
Ryne Sandberg
#3. Oh how nice!" the lady said. But not corny. She was just nice & all. "I must tell Ernest we met," she said. "May I ask your name, dear?"
"Rudolf Schmidt," I told her. I didn't feel like giving her my whole life history. Rudolf Schmidt was the name of the janitor of our dorm.
J.D. Salinger
#5. I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.
Sid Gillman
#6. I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.
Sid Gillman
#7. I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.
Meghan Daum
#8. This brings me back to my question about my karma," Wilson said. "You probably set kittens on fire," Schmidt said. "And the rest of us were probably there with you, with skewers.
John Scalzi
#9. My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
Vin Diesel
#10. The career 500th home run for Michael Jack Schmidt!
Harry Kalas
#11. One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.
Fannie Hurst
#12. The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.
Glenn Greenwald
#13. Helmut, if I had known that one can make it to 90 on 60 cigarettes a day, I would have started smoking 30 years ago. [at Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's 90th birthday]
Henry Kissinger
#14. In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?
Alexander Payne
#15. In an environment where everybody's jersey is up for grabs, like what Joe Schmidt is currently doing with Ireland in rugby, a massive competitive environment is created every night at training, every day in the gym and every day, believe it or not, in the tactical computer room.
Brian Cody
#16. I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.
Pete Rose
#17. Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days
Eli Pariser
#18. My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless ... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.
Kathe Kollwitz
#19. They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.
Margaret Thatcher
#20. The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.
Francois Hollande
#21. I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.
Hope Davis
#22. Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
Marissa Mayer
#23. More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
Keith Morris
#24. I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson
#25. If opportunity knocks, let it in. But with the way things are nowadays-I'd rather meet opportunity somewhere that's more public. I could meet opportunity in a coffee shop, but what if it works there? Well, I could suggest my grandma's basement.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
James Lee Schmidt
#26. I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#27. If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
Eric Schmidt
#28. If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.
Eric Schmidt
#29. If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.
Eric Schmidt
#30. Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
Jennifer Schmidt
#31. You need to have confidence in your people, and enough self-confidence to let them identify a better way.
Eric Schmidt
#32. Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.
Gary D. Schmidt
#33. It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.
Mike Schmidt
#34. I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
Eric Schmidt
#35. A technical insight is a new way of applying technology or design that either drives down the cost or increases the functions and usability of the product by a significant factor.
Eric Schmidt
#36. Your dad's story is over. In six months or a year, this will be done for him. He won't be dealing with the consequences of what you choose to do now. You will. So you make this decision based on what you need.
Jason Schmidt
#37. The thorns of life had wounded him deeply. So he held fast to his art even when the gate through which it entered was shut.
Catherine Stella Schmidt
#38. Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.
Helmut Schmidt
#39. Every 2 days we create as much information as we did up to 2003.
Eric Schmidt
#41. In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
Eric Schmidt
#42. I folded Lizzie into small pieces. But the letters did not stop.
Sarah Schmidt
#43. And for more egregious offenses, you need to get rid of the knave, quickly. Think
Eric Schmidt
#44. The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
Eric Schmidt
#46. There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
Gary D. Schmidt
#47. The true crisis in our world is not social, political, or economic, our crisis is the crisis of consciousness: an inability to directly experience our true nature, an inability to recognize this nature in everyone and in all things.
Daniel Schmidt
#48. Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.
Stanley Schmidt
#49. I could tell the officer all of this because it was the truth. All of this happened in the house at some stage. Should it matter when it happened?
Sarah Schmidt
#50. Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
Eric Schmidt
#51. When I was a little younger, I realized acting is a wonderful craft, and it's wonderful when you are working.
Kevin Schmidt
#52. We can talk about God's justice and love from now to the end of time. But until our theological discourse engages white supremacy in a way that empowers poor people to fight the monster, then our theology is not worth the paper it is written on. In
Frederick W. Schmidt Jr.
#53. By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.
Eric Schmidt
#55. I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.
Kevin Schmidt
#56. I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
Eric Schmidt
#57. Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.
Kendall Schmidt
#58. We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
Eric Schmidt
#60. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.
Eric Schmidt
#61. In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.
Helmut Schmidt
#62. I have a great relationship with everyone in my family, but I'm closer to my brothers than anyone else because they give me a lot of guidance.
Kendall Schmidt
#63. I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.
Brian Schmidt
#64. To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just
to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.
Jon Schmidt
#65. That's the Teacher Gene at work, giving its bearer an extra sense. It's a little frightening. Maybe that's how people decide to become teachers. They have that extra sense, and once they have it, and know that they have it, they don't have any choice except to become a teacher.
Gary D. Schmidt
#66. No matter what a person's job is, they should be encouraged to have opinions about the business, industry, customers and partners,
Eric Schmidt
#67. If you want better performance from the best, celebrate and reward it
Eric Schmidt
#68. General Electric CEO Jack Welch said in Winning: No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
Eric Schmidt
#69. Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
Stanley Schmidt
#70. It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.
Howard Schmidt
#71. Give the wrong people a big challenge, and you'll induce anxiety. But give it to the right people, and you'll induce joy.
Eric Schmidt
#72. To be a thought leader, you have to have a thought.
Eric Schmidt
#73. John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to his reckless and expansive promises of new government spending on the campaign trail.
Steve Schmidt
#75. The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
Eric Schmidt
#76. It's not the solution, Mr. Canton. It's the path to the solution that's fascinating.
Gary D. Schmidt
#77. Are there members of your team whom, if they told you they were leaving, you would not fight hard to keep? If there are employees you would let go, then perhaps you should.
Eric Schmidt
#78. Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.
He's okay for now.
Gary D. Schmidt
#79. You have nothing with which to bargain. You can offer Jesus only one thing - belief. He simply asks, "Do you believe in Me?
Cary Schmidt
#80. You should hire the best engineer you can find, regardless of her coding preference, because if she's the best she can down enough Java to C how to make the Python Go.
Eric Schmidt
#81. How many years does it take to grow into someone?
Sarah Schmidt
#82. Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is.
Eric Schmidt
#83. We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.
Eric Schmidt
#84. Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
Gary D. Schmidt
#85. I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws.
Kendall Schmidt
#86. Establishing a successful hiring culture that delivers a steady stream of outstanding people starts with understanding the role of recruiters in sourcing candidates. Hint: It isn't their exclusive realm.
Eric Schmidt
#87. A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker.
"We talked about this before."
"A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know."
"Suppose you can't see it?"
"That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.
Gary D. Schmidt
#88. Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.
Brian Schmidt
#89. Any metric that gets you thinking too near-term
Dusty Schmidt
#90. In the Internet Century, the objective of creating networks is not just to lower costs and make operations more efficient, but to create fundamentally better products.
Eric Schmidt
#91. So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.
Gary D. Schmidt
#92. When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
Eric Schmidt
#93. Tom Lehrer line - "Life is like a sewer: What you get out of it depends on what you put into it"112 - and a promise that if they put real effort into the exercises, he will help them.
Eric Schmidt
#94. Traditional project management focuses on task-level details and loses sight of the benefits projects aim to deliver.
Terry Schmidt
#95. A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
Eric Schmidt
#96. She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand.
You know what that feels like?
Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.
Gary D. Schmidt
#97. We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.
Eric Schmidt
#98. The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
Eric Schmidt
#99. Past the back of a bunch of stores and an old bar that looked like no one who went in there went in happy.
Gary D. Schmidt
#100. Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?
Gary D. Schmidt
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