Charles Handy Quotes

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers.

Charles Handy

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• What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Time
  • Important
  • Hope

• You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Want
  • Past
  • Mission

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Illusion
  • Himself

• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
  • Only
  • Heal

• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Enthusiasm

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • View
  • Beliefs

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Look
  • Ordinary

• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Hungry
  • Washington

• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Day

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Man
  • You
  • Boy

• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

  

  David Guetta
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Walking

• At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Serious

• The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Man
  • Peace

• Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Growth
  • Acceptance

• Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Life
  • Winning
  • Competition