Reverse Quotes (119 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Jeff Zucker
„I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.“
― Jeff Zucker ―
Picture of quotation author Margaret Young
„The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.“
― Margaret Young ―
Picture of quotation author Gary Wright
„India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.“
― Gary Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Meg Whitman
„You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.“
― Meg Whitman ―
Picture of quotation author Desmond Tutu
„In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.“
― Desmond Tutu ―
Picture of quotation author Gene Tunney
„Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.“
― Gene Tunney ―
Picture of quotation author Joe Torre
„By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.“
― Joe Torre ―
Picture of quotation author James Surowiecki
„We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.“
Picture of quotation author Caroline Sunshine
„I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to travel to new places and try crazy things. I'm a bit of a daredevil, so I have done things like zip lining, parasailing, scuba diving, and reverse bungee jumping!“
Picture of quotation author Tristram Stuart
„In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.“
― Tristram Stuart ―
Picture of quotation author Eliot Spitzer
„The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.“
― Eliot Spitzer ―
Picture of quotation author George Soros
„I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.“
― George Soros ―
Picture of quotation author Theodore C. Sorensen
„Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.“
Picture of quotation author Gary Shteyngart
„In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.“
― Gary Shteyngart ―
Picture of quotation author William Shenstone
„Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.“
Picture of quotation author Cindy Sheehan
„I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.“
― Cindy Sheehan ―
Picture of quotation author Arthur Schopenhauer
„Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.“
Picture of quotation author J. D. Salinger
„I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.“
― J. D. Salinger ―
Picture of quotation author Donald Rumsfeld
„Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.“
― Donald Rumsfeld ―
Picture of quotation author Meg Rosoff
„One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.“
― Meg Rosoff ―

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