Galvin Quotes & Sayings

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter. — Pud Galvin

Not unseated,
Not even touched
By the shocks of sickness,
Gods stand worlds from men. — Bacchylides

Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone. — Bob Galvin

When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different. — Christopher Galvin

1¼ cups per serving 25 Minutes to Prepare and Cook 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast 2 tbsp chopped walnut halves 1 cup red grapes, seedless, sliced in half lengthwise 1 cup celery, finely sliced 1 Granny Smith apple, cored and diced into cubes For the Dressing: 2 tbsp reduced-fat mayonnaise 2 tbsp plain nonfat Greek yogurt 1 tbsp lemon juice — Meg Galvin

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't. — James Galvin

While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance. — Christopher Galvin

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator. — Christopher Galvin

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball. — Pud Galvin

The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say. — Christopher Galvin

And for a minute, maybe longer ... everything that threatens us, threatens to save us. — James Galvin

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. — George Bernard Shaw

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family. — Patricia Reilly Giff

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will. — James Galvin

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly. — Bob Galvin

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible. — Christopher Galvin

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way." — Christopher Galvin

We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.' — Christopher Galvin

Snow. Sun. Sandstone. Sky. He was doing what he liked and knew. It was now. And this now had no pressure, just permission. - James Galvin — Scott Jurek

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Meadow ... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here ... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in. — James Galvin

God has chosen, through his son Jesus Christ, this time, this place for all Christians - Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox - to save our country and save our courts. — William H. Pryor Jr.

I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope. — Bob Galvin

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work ... — Christopher Galvin

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience. — Christopher Galvin

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Once people have tried to do something they think is uniquely innovative and it doesn't work, they're actually now more valuable because they know what not to try the next time, or what to try differently. — Christopher Galvin

I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor. — Christopher Galvin

It's better than the Green Line," Galvin said with a — Joseph Finder

The trouble is, we are incurable sentimentalists. We insist on makin over historical characters to suit our preconceived notions of what they should be, chipping, sandpapering, and polishing each personality until it assumes what we consider the proper contour and color. — Nancy Byrd Turner