Daniel Goleman Quotes
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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You were born as the one you are.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Every video I make, I want to make sure that it's doing something entertaining or hopefully inspiring or maybe teaching somebody something or sharing my mistakes so that they can learn from them or anything that will make a positive impact in the world.
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Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.
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There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.
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When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
