"I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period."

-- Sam Walton

#Opportunity Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.”
“I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.”
“All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.”
“There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.”
“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”
“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”
“The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.210, Clear Press Ltd
“Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, cut-glass cheekbones and glazed blue eyes, he's right on the border between dreamboat and spooky freak.”

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