"If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics."

-- Dick Ebersol

#Careers Quotes #Olympics Quotes

“Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.”
“When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.”
“Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I've seen this over and over in America, too.”
“At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.”
“One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.”
“People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.”

Source : Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.17, Apress
“An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.”
“He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.”

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