Chris Fussell Quotes
Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I've learned never say never.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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Solve more problems than you create.
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I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s, it became a real political run-a-muck... even though the Iraqis were known to be harboring Palestinian terrorists.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm's golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I'm so competitive, I don't want to go and just pretend I'm a good golfer.
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Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.
