Charles Handy Quotes
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I don't like controversy.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
