Charles Handy Quotes
A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.
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Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
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Don't forget the late '70s was dominated by people like the Queen of Disco Donna Summer and everybody who was in that bag. We were already in dance mode, the Bee Gees were out with the most fantastic record the world had ever heard, so the world was in the mode. Anything outside of that mode was secondary.
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When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.
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A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
