Charles Handy Quotes
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
Quotes to Explore
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving you’re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other (the world of changing qualities) it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.
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The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
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The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
