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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I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.
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All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
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Moral solipsism.
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I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.
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Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
