Daniel Goleman Quotes
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I always played to win.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
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There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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Raison annehmen kann niemand, der nicht schon welche hat.
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I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
