Christine Tsai Quotes
It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
