Daniel Goleman Quotes
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
Quotes to Explore
-
When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
-
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
-
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
-
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
-
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
-
Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
-
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
-
'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
-
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
-
Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
-
It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
-
The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
-
Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
-
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
-
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
-
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
-
I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.
-
I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.
-
The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
-
When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.
-
How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?
-
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
