Diego Godin Quotes
To see a small, modest team built on hard work, where the players are so close, so together, win week after week, stay up there and play so well, when they're so consistent and they win the league, that makes people take them to their hearts.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I know who the great poets are.
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I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
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I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
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If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.
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To see a small, modest team built on hard work, where the players are so close, so together, win week after week, stay up there and play so well, when they're so consistent and they win the league, that makes people take them to their hearts.
