Bill Drayton Quotes
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
Quotes to Explore
-
I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
-
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
-
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
-
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
-
I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
-
If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
-
I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
-
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
-
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
-
My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
-
I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
-
Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
-
You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
-
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-
Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
-
I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
-
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
-
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
-
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
-
I hate to waste a really good threat.
-
Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
-
My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.
-
When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.
-
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
