David Korten Quotes
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.David Korten
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey -
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner -
Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
Hailey Gates -
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
Wendy Kopp -
There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
Natalie Zea -
Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
A.J. Styles
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
Adam Baldwin -
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe -
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler -
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia -
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell -
I love collaborating with different people.
Damon Lindelof
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
T. D. Jakes -
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
Carly Fiorina -
For your information, I would like to ask a question.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
Ed Gillespie -
I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
Rami Malek -
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
Bebe Rexha
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I can have more of a normal life in Los Angeles, where I can be fairly anonymous.
Kyle Secor -
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
Sarah Addison Allen -
I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.
Jeffrey Wright -
I want to be with you till my last page.
A.R. Asher -
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
David Korten