Bill Simmons Quotes
Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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You have to be super focused when you're boxing. After I've done a few rounds, I feel as if I can conquer the world.
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
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There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.
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People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
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Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
