Charles Handy Quotes

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• When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Language
  • Questions
  • Someone

• Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Great
  • Media
  • Clothes

• I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Leonardo
  • DiCaprio

• The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Learn
  • Looks

• The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • American
  • Science
  • Small

• I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Carnivore
  • Doesn

• The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Life
  • Women
  • America

• Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Giving
  • Enemy
  • Constitution

• Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Like
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Laws
  • Against
  • Religions

• The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • Earth
  • Universe

• Hollywood... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Work
  • Independent

• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Running

• Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Nature

• After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

  

  Alex Winter
  • Live

• For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Home
  • Painting
  • Communication

• And finally the silence, looking out, looking back across the sky, Trying to find a meaning, knowing that I just left it all behind

  

  Ben Jelen
  • Silence
  • Sky
  • Meaning

• I believe everything is about balance. I'm not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Friends

• 'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987

  

  Octavio Paz

• I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

  

  John Milton
  • Ambition
  • Deeds
  • Commend

• You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Outside
  • Re-designed